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Long-running transactions (also known as the saga interaction pattern^[1][2]) are computer database transactions that avoid locks on non-local resources, use compensation to handle failures, potentially aggregate smaller ACID transactions (also referred to as atomic transactions), and typically use a coordinator to complete or abort the transaction. In contrast to rollback in ACID transactions, compensation restores the original state, or an equivalent, and is business-specific. For example, the compensating action for making a hotel reservation is canceling that reservation.

A number of protocols have been specified for long-running transactions using Web services within business processes. OASIS Business Transaction Processing^[3] and WS-CAF^[4] are examples. These protocols use a coordinator to mediate the successful completion or use of compensation in a long-running transaction.

• Compensating transaction
• Long-lived transaction
• Optimistic concurrency control