With the fast pace of business operations, many companies rely on transactional software systems to help them automate business processes. These transactional systems have to process data in real time ...

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 ...

Claiming a first, QNX Software Systems this week took the wraps off a fault-tolerant, embedded transactional file system (ETFS) for NAND flash memory devices desgined to protect against power failures ...

On July 17, IBM launched the IBM Z to extend the company’s influence in the financial cybersecurity market. The new mainframe system, which can run more than 12 billion encrypted transactions each day ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...