Transactions in NoSQL?

Question

I\'m looking into NoSQL for scaling alternatives to a database. What do I do if I want transaction-based things that are sensitive to these kind of things?

Answer 1

Depends on your DB, but ... I would say in general, you can use 'Optimistic transactions' to achieve this but I imagine one should make sure to understand the database implementation's atomicity guarantees (e.g. what kind of write and read operations are atomic).

There seems to be some discussions on the net about HBase transactions, if thats any help.