An active transaction list synchronization method and apparatus comprising a first node that records, in a transaction list incremental log buffer, a transaction list incremental log that is obtained after last active transaction list synchronization, where the transaction list incremental log indicates a change of a transaction recorded in an active transaction list of the first node and includes an added-transaction log and a committed-transaction log, wherein the added-transaction log indicates a transaction is added to the active transaction list, wherein the committed-transaction log indicates a transaction is deleted from the active transaction list. When performing group commit on transactions recorded in the committed-transaction log, the first node sends the transaction list incremental log to at least one second node.