About
Online transaction processing (or OLTP) refers to a class of application that support a business transaction process.
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Example
- Databases (SAP, Oracle, SQL) supporting Online Transaction Processing
Model
The data model that supports this process are called entity-relationship model (ER)
IO pattern
- Typically 2KB – 16KB request sizes;
- Read modify, write, verify operations resulting in 2 reads for every write;
- Primarily random accesses.
- Large number of concurrent requests.
- When running SQL statements in parallel, Database will perform typically large random I/Os.