Oracle’s new self-driving database cloud service is built to run the demanding finance, retail, manufacturing, and government applications, supporting a mix of high-performance transaction processing, ...

Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake is switching gears. Launched in 2014 with a focus on disrupting the traditional data warehouse market and big-data analytics, the company is turning its ...

Until recently, only certain companies, such as high-frequency trading firms or digitally native companies like Facebook and Google, built their business models around extreme transaction ...

The io2 Block Express service will play a critical role in convincing organizations to move transaction processing applications to the cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced the general ...

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 ...