In transaction processing and distributed computing, a compensating transaction is a transaction that reverses the effects of a previously committed transaction. It is a core concept in the saga design pattern, used to maintain data consistency across multiple services or databases in scenarios where traditional ACID transactions are not feasible or practical.
In transaction processing and distributed computing, a compensating transaction is a transaction that reverses the effects of a previously committed transaction. It is a core concept in the saga design pattern, used to maintain data consistency across multiple services or databases in scenarios where traditional ACID transactions are not feasible or practical.
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