Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...

Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...

Recent advances in graphics processing units (GPUs) have opened a new frontier in query processing and database systems. Leveraging the massively parallel architecture of GPUs, modern database engines ...

Among the messages that Oracle is putting out for its flagship database, adding new access paths for developers has become just as important as adding new data types. This month, Oracle is launching ...

After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help ...

To survive in today's ultra-competitive business environment, companies have to be adaptable and be able to move quickly with the ever-changing market conditions. It's not enough to simply have a good ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB to ...

The payment acceptance system is the foundation of modern e-commerce. Online stores, subscription services, and digital platforms use specialized financial tools to process transactions. One of the ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region ...