Yep, and each has their own bespoke and often inconsistent API. All to eventually emit plain ole BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK. JPA is at least a spec rather than just

Yep, and each has their own bespoke and often inconsistent API. All to eventually emit plain ole BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK. JPA is at least a spec rather than just yet another single isolated implementation. Unfortunately it's not a good spec.