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atomicity [Brit ˌatəˈmɪsɪti, Am ˌædəˈmɪsədi] N

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Since atomicity requires every distributed transaction to be atomic, the transaction must have the same fate (commit or abort) at every site. en.wikipedia.org

An example of atomicity is ordering an airline ticket where two actions are required: payment, and a seat reservation. en.wikipedia.org

The arabesque is a rendition of temporal atomicity at the level of extension. www.e-flux.com

In other words, atomicity means "indivisibility" and "irreducibility". en.wikipedia.org

Atomicity is commonly enforced by mutual exclusion, whether at the hardware level building on a cache coherency protocol, or the software level using semaphores or locks. en.wikipedia.org

A guarantee of atomicity prevents updates to the database occurring only partially, which can cause greater problems than rejecting the whole series outright. en.wikipedia.org

This code only serves to help explain the behaviour of test-and-set; atomicity requires explicit hardware support and hence can't be implemented as a simple function. en.wikipedia.org

Atomicity may be achieved by using a machine instruction that is able to read, modify and write the semaphore in a single operation. en.wikipedia.org

Finally, atomicity itself relies on durability to ensure the atomicity of transactions even in the face of external failures. en.wikipedia.org

Both are done to ensure atomicity and durability of transactions. en.wikipedia.org

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