advancedWhy Local Transactions Fail

Is this fundamentally a Spring/framework limitation, or a deeper constraint?

A deeper constraint — a single database transaction is inherently scoped to one connection/database at the protocol level; no framework abstraction can make one COMMIT atomically span multiple independent databases.

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