© Shakil Akhtar and Ravi Magham 2017

Shakil Akhtar and Ravi Magham, Pro Apache Phoenix, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2370-3_6

6. Transactions

Shakil Akhtar and Ravi Magham2

(1)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

(2)Santa Clara, California, USA

When we discuss databases either Relations or Non-relational transactions are more important to ensure data integrity or dealing with concurrent tasks. Transactions also play an important role when handling database errors and avoiding database to any inconsistent state. Transactions are an integral part of relational databases. Although majority of NoSQL databases do not have full support for transactions but some of them provide transactions support with the help of a transaction manager. Similarly, HBase leverage Apache Tephra ...

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