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 == Overview
 
-Couchbase transactions support ACID properties for protected actions on the database.
+Couchbase transactions support ACID properties for protected actions on the database, within the same datacenter --
+for notes on transactions and cross-datacenter replication, see <<#transactions-and-replication-xdcr>>, below.
 
 *Atomicity* ensures that a transaction provides all-or-nothing semantics -- i.e.,  either all the documents modified in a transaction are committed, or none of the changes are committed. If there is a failure during transaction execution (such as the client crashing) all its changes are rolled back.