DocDB transactions layer

DocDB is YugabyteDB's distributed document store responsible for transactions, sharding, replication, and persistence.

YugabyteDB's distributed transaction architecture is based on principles of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID), and is inspired by Google Spanner.

Overview

Transactions support in YugabyteDB.

Transaction isolation

Supported transaction isolation levels.

Concurrency control

Learn how YugabyteDB handles conflicts between concurrent transactions.

Single-row transactions

Single-row transactions in YugabyteDB.

Distributed transactions

Distributed (multi-shard) transactions in YugabyteDB.

Transactional I/O path

Transactional reads and writes in YugabyteDB.