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 ...

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced the immediate availability of TPCx-AI, the first industry-standard, vendor-neutral benchmark for measuring real-world, end-to-end ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

Due to changing conditions in the healthcare environment, many hospitals believe it is time that they move away from independence and toward some form of a transaction. A transaction has the potential ...

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 ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Credit card fraud continues to plague consumers around the ...

Growth in contactless and peer-to-peer payments, e-commerce, and value-added services were among the highlights discussed with stock analysts late Tuesday during Visa Inc.’s third-quarter earnings ...

While it’s common to use the Java Transaction API and the XA protocol for distributed transactions in Spring, you do have other options. The optimum implementation depends on the types of resources ...