Glossary
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.