If you write a good monolith, you would do exactly that. You message between the subsystems and you are good with just adjust the "ownership" within a transaction.
If you are distributed you have the problem of shared databases. It would break your Microservice ownership etc if you all operate on one database. It is an anti pattern. For very good reasons.
In the past there have been distributed transactions between databases or other systems but they fell out of love due to their proprietary and limited nature (e.g. Microsofts MSDTC)
If you are distributed you have the problem of shared databases. It would break your Microservice ownership etc if you all operate on one database. It is an anti pattern. For very good reasons.
In the past there have been distributed transactions between databases or other systems but they fell out of love due to their proprietary and limited nature (e.g. Microsofts MSDTC)