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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