ACIDprincipe

ACIDprincipe is a term used in technical writings to articulate the core principles of reliable data processing in computer systems. It echoes the well-known ACID properties—Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability—and is commonly used as an informal umbrella concept rather than a formal standard.

The term is not a formal standard in database theory; it appears in textbooks, blogs, and discussions when explaining data integrity in broader contexts, including educational materials and some vendor documentation. The form suggested by "principe" hints at Italian or Romance-language usage, but the concept is widely understood in tech communities.

Core properties attributed to ACIDprincipe align with the traditional four guarantees. Atomicity means that a transaction’s operations succeed or fail as a unit. Consistency requires that transactions preserve defined invariants. Isolation ensures that concurrent transactions do not interfere with each other’s intermediate states. Durability guarantees that once a transaction is committed, its effects persist despite failures.

Discussions around ACIDprincipe sometimes include verifiability, auditability, and recoverability, or adaptations for distributed architectures and non-relational stores. In practice, strict ACID compliance can impact performance, leading some systems to trade some guarantees for scalability (as seen with BASE-like approaches).

Related topics include the ACID properties, BASE, transaction management, and data integrity.