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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals ...

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 ...

The Unisys mainframe at Greater El Paso’s Credit Union had run out of steam. Response times had slowed to unacceptable levels as transaction volumes climbed to 135,000 per day, and completion times ...