How to work around the lack of transactions in MongoDB?

Question

I know there are similar questions here but they are either telling me to switch back to regular RDBMS systems if I need transactions or use atomic operations or two-phase c

Answer 1

Bring it to the point: if transactional integrity is a must then don't use MongoDB but use only components in the system supporting transactions. It is extremely hard to build something on top of component in order to provide ACID-similar functionality for non-ACID compliant components. Depending on the individual usecases it may make sense to separate actions into transactional and non-transactional actions in some way...