Seata, or Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture is an open source distributed transaction solution that brings high performance and easy-to-use distributed transaction services under a microservices architecture. It has 3 basic components: a Transaction Coordinator for maintaining the status of global and branch transactions; a Transaction Manager that defines the scope of global transaction; and a Resource Manager that manages resources being worked on by branch transactions, and drives branch transaction commit or rollback.
Seata has played a pivotal role of distributed consistency Middleware in Ali economy, and has provided strong support for businesses of all departments. It continues to be used and trusted by dozens of other companies.
Features
- Microservices Framework Support - supports Dubbo, Spring Cloud, Sofa-RPC and other frameworks
- TCC mode
- AT mode - supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and TiDB's AT mode
- SAGA mode - for long transactions
- High availability