Explore the technology behind online marketplace systems: digital transaction processing, security protocols, and how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

Merchants’ disdain for interchange is well documented, but one aspect of card-acceptance costs that gets drowned out by the outcry over interchange is that rising processing fees are hitting merchants ...

Updating the appropriate databases as soon as an order, payment or other transaction is made. Transaction processing enables anyone in the organization to obtain an account balance, inventory balance ...

I've spoken with a number of vendors who are doing their best to offer tools making it possible to create configurations that process transactions presented by millions of people not just hundreds of ...