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 ...

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 ...

San Jose, Calif. — The workhorse benchmark for large database systems officially gets its first upgrade in 14 years today. The Transaction Processing Performance Council has announced the immediate ...

Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals ...

Concurrency control is crucial for ensuring consistency and isolation in distributed transaction processing. Traditional concurrency control algorithms, such as locking-based protocols, usually suffer ...