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OLTP

Meaning and details

The pattern Postgres and MySQL are optimized for: many short transactions reading and writing individual rows. Contrast with OLAP, which trades that for analytical throughput over billions of rows.

OLTP meaning

Online Transaction Processing: the write-heavy, row-level workload of applications.

What is OLTP?

The pattern Postgres and MySQL are optimized for: many short transactions reading and writing individual rows. Contrast with OLAP, which trades that for analytical throughput over billions of rows.

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