Distributed Transactions in Transnational Companies

The present society is without any doubt an information society. The implementation of complex informatics applications needed to support the various organizations, most of them with geographically distributed offices, resulted in the need for distributed database systems capable to ensure high efficiency and greater flexibility. This paper describes distributed transactions used in distributed database systems with their properties and operations. The aim of a distributed transaction is to ensure data concurrency and data consistency for all the users of the database.