Desktop Batch Processing

: Today, online transaction processing applications can downsize from mainframes to microprocessors. Commodity database systems, operating systems, and hardware came of age in 1993., -- they surpassed the online transaction processing performance of proprietary solutions. There are lingering doubts about downsizing batch transaction processing applications. The doubts center on the ability of microprocessor hardware to handle the high IO bandwidth required by batch processing, and on doubts that microprocessor systems offer the software services and utilities key to batch processing applications. This paper reviews the impressive progress of made by commodity software and hardware in processing OLTP workloads. The discussion is quantitative because the Transaction Processing Performance Council defined a set of benchmarks that characterize OLTP and that quantify price and performance. Discussion then turns to batch transaction processing. There is less consensus on the characteristics ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: COMPCON
• Authors: Jim Gray, Chris Nyberg
• Keywords: Batch Transaction Processing, COMPCON 1994, Computer Networks, Transaction Processing, Transaction Processing Applications