Operation of distributed transaction manager

Question

Describe the operation of a distributed transaction manager. If you had to implement a transaction manager what would you do to try to make sure it had the widest possible applicability to different vender resource managers such as DBMS?

Answer 1

The transaction manager is responsible for creating and managing a global transaction that encompasses all operations against these resources. Distributed transactions, as any other transactions, should have all the four ACID properties, where atomicity guarantees all-or-nothing results for the unit of work (operations bundle).

If I had to implement a transaction manager then i would do to try to make sure it had the widest possible applicability to different vender resource managers such as DBMS?

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