Are transactions supported by MySQL?

What are transactions in MySQL?

A transaction in MySQL is a sequential group of statements, queries, or operations such as select, insert, update or delete to perform as a one single work unit that can be committed or rolled back.

Does MySQL support distributed transaction?

Among the MySQL Connectors, MySQL Connector/J 5.0. 0 and higher supports XA directly, by means of a class interface that handles the XA SQL statement interface for you. XA supports distributed transactions, that is, the ability to permit multiple separate transactional resources to participate in a global transaction.

How do I COMMIT a transaction in MySQL?

MySQL transaction statements1To start a transaction, you use the START TRANSACTION statement. ... 2To commit the current transaction and make its changes permanent, you use the COMMIT statement.3To roll back the current transaction and cancel its changes, you use the ROLLBACK statement.

Does MySQL support ACID transactions?

MySQL fully satisfies the ACID requirements for a transaction-safe RDBMS, as follows: Atomicity is handled by storing the results of transactional statements (the modified rows) in a memory buffer and writing these results to disk and to the binary log from the buffer only once the transaction is committed.