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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In today's digital landscape, ensuring the reliability of payment systems is essential to maintaining trust and operational efficiency. Shivansh Chandnani, along with his co-author Ajay Nagrale, ...

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 ...

Explore the costs of POS systems for businesses, including hardware, software, payment processing, and installation fees, to ...

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 ...

An earlier family of fault-tolerant midrange computers from IBM. Targeting transaction processing, System/88 enabled resources to be distributed over multiple computers while providing a single system ...