6 Signs You Might be Misunderstanding ACID Transactions in Distributed Databases` reveals that despite the NoSQL era's emphasis on dropping ACID guarantees, enterprises can still launch customer-facing apps with transactional integrity and linear scalability across multiple cloud regions using both NoSQL/non-relational and SQL/relational APIs. The common signs of misunderstanding include assuming ACID compliance requires SQL syntax, believing distributed transactions are always distributed, equating multi-master replication with distributed ACID compliance, attempting to implement ACID transactions at the application level, struggling to achieve atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability in distributed transactions, and misconceiving that distributed databases inherently suffer from poor performance. However, modern distributed databases like YugabyteDB, Google Cloud Spanner, and MongoDB are designed to support ACID transactions with low latency and high throughput, overcoming previous issues such as XA transactions' high latency and inconsistent implementations.