TimesTen on Monday will release Version 5.1 of its data management and transaction processing system, focusing on the “real-time enterprise.” The product line is being expanded with three products: ...

A new benchmark has been launched by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) to enable measurement and comparison of big data systems. According to the TPC, the benchmark – TPCx-HS – ...

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 ...

Oracle Corp’s. Exadata X9M online transaction processing database is like an automobile on the professional racing circuit. Every few months, Oracle takes the race car into the garage for fine tuning ...

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 ...

IBM has scored the highest TPC-C benchmark performance result ever achieved by an x86-64 processor-based server. The IBM System x3850 X5 server handled 2,308,099 tpmC (transactions per minute C) at ...

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 ...

Merchants are no strangers to rising payment-processing costs. Merchant-processing fees often feel unavoidable, driven by interchange rates and card-network rules that are beyond a merchant’s control.