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Why is achieving perfect ACID in microservices impossible?
Track: Java
Topic: Microservice Architecture
Focus: Eventual Consistency (Sagas)
Java: Eventual Consistency (Sagas)
Answer
ACID is not feasible due to distributed nature and separate databases.
Microservices, by design, have separate databases and operate over networks, making the immediate consistency of ACID transactions impractical. Network latency and the need for independent scaling complicate ensuring atomicity and isolation across services. For example, ensuring that an order and payment are simultaneously committed across two different services is challenging without a centralized transaction manager.
Microservices, by design, have separate databases and operate over networks, making the immediate consistency of ACID transactions impractical. Network latency and the need for independent scaling complicate ensuring atomicity and isolation across services. For example, ensuring that an order and payment are simultaneously committed across two different services is challenging without a centralized transaction manager.
Topics: Eventual Consistency (Sagas) Java Microservice Architecture