Glossary — in plain language

ACID


In plain English

ACID is four promises a database makes about transactions: Atomicity (all or nothing), Consistency (rules stay satisfied), Isolation (transactions do not see each other half-finished), Durability (once committed, it survives a crash).

Why it matters

ACID is why you can trust a relational database with money and orders. Each letter maps to real settings: durability ties to fsync and synchronous_commit; isolation ties to isolation levels.

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