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Neo4j in Action
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Neo4j in Action

by Dominic Fox, Tareq Abedrabbo, Jonas Partner, Nicki Watt, Aleksa Vukotic
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
10h 33m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 7. Transactions

This chapter covers

  • Why transactions are important
  • How Neo4j handles transactions
  • How to integrate Neo4j with other transaction management systems
  • How to take advantage of transaction events

Neo4j differs from some other NoSQL technologies by being fully ACID-compliant (ACID being an acronym for atomic, consistent, isolated, durable). Being fully ACID-compliant means Neo4j offers the same guarantees you’d have if you were working with a traditional relational database system.

It’s important to have ACID guarantees when you work with Neo4j because it’s commonplace to mutate a number of graph entities (nodes, relationships, and index entries) within the same transaction. It’s also easier to reason about the behavior ...

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