ACID

Definition

Four properties guaranteeing reliable database transactions: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability.

Example in context

"Any money transfer must be ACID — if the debit succeeds but the credit fails, the whole transaction rolls back."

Related terms

• Transaction — A unit of work that groups multiple database operations to execute atomically — all succeed or all roll back.
• Rollback — Reverting a deployed application to a previous working version after a failed release.
• CAP theorem — A theorem stating distributed systems can guarantee at most two of three properties: Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance.