Most of the traditional relational databases are considered OLTP. The transactional database is the oldest and most popular method of storing and handling application data. Some examples of relational OLTP databases are Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, as well as others. The data access pattern for OLTP involves fetching a small dataset by looking up their ID. A database transaction means that either all related updates of the database table completed, or none of them did.
The relational model allows the processing of complex business transactions in an application, such as banking, trading, and e-commerce. It will enable you to aggregate data and create complex queries using multiple joins across tables. While optimizing your relational database, you need to consider including the following optimizations:
- Database server that includes computing, memory, storage, and network
- Operating system-level settings, such as a...
