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How does Spring's transaction abstraction let you swap SQL for MongoDB with minimal code change?

Spring's @Transactional and PlatformTransactionManager interface are resource-agnostic — swapping DataSourceTransactionManager/JpaTransactionManager for MongoTransactionManager changes the backing implementation without changing how your service code declares its transaction boundaries.

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