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 ...

The phrases "point of sale" and "transaction processing system" represent two different, yet closely related concepts having to do with the sales function. Each term represents a distinct and vital ...

Transaction process is a term that refers to the adding, changing, deleting, or looking up of a record in a data file or database by entering the data at a terminal or workstation. Most transaction ...

Today, government agencies have few options that allow them to seamlessly process payments. One industry leader is hoping to change that — one transaction at a time. Here’s how. In December 2021, the ...

In a fast-paced digital world, the efficiency of online transactions is both a convenience and a necessity. The speed and reliability of these transactions directly impact customer satisfaction and ...

Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites. He is also the author of two books. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced ...

Banks and brokerages like Fidelity, Schwab, Citibank and Wells Fargo have used technology to better connect with consumers in an increasingly cutthroat marketplace. It was 1970, and Steve Schutze was ...

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 ...

Successful organizations large and small leverage available technologies to manage business activities and assist in making decisions. They use information systems to collect data and process it ...

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 ...