In Datomic you can setup a function the transactor can call within a transaction. This function takes the current value of the database and other supplied arguments (e.g. $100 and -$50 from your example) and according to its logic produces and returns a list of "changes" the transactor should apply to the database. The function is pure in sense that it doesn't have any side effects, it just "expands" into new data. And of course this "expantion" and application of its results happens in the same transaction.
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In Datomic you can setup a function the transactor can call within a transaction. This function takes the current value of the database and other supplied arguments (e.g. $100 and -$50 from your example) and according to its logic produces and returns a list of "changes" the transactor should apply to the database. The function is pure in sense that it doesn't have any side effects, it just "expands" into new data. And of course this "expantion" and application of its results happens in the same transaction.