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 ...

In today's business world, from the public sector, to financial services, to healthcare, companies are being challenged with managing more data and more users demanding access to that data with less ...

In the operational level of an organization, transaction processing systems (TPS) are the basic business systems. You can think of order entry systems for sales, hotel reservation systems, payroll, ...

“Transaction processing just continues to explode and go to extreme speed and scale,” said Dan Lahl, VP, Database & Technology Marketing, SAP, in a recent interview. “If you look at Wall Street, back ...

Using J(2)EE application server has been a norm when high-end features like transactions, security, availability, and scalability are mandatory. There are very few options for java applications, which ...

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 ...

Vendia revealed it has raised $15.5 million to advance development of a Vendia Share service that enables IT teams to share data and code, as well as processing transactions between third parties.

When it comes to determining the cost of your accounts payable processing, don’t forget to factor in the time your staff spends processing invoices — time they could be spent working on other things ...