Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 7 October 97

Foil 10 General Classes of Commercial Applications

From untitled presentation ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou


OLTP (On Line Transaction Processing) --- consists of performing many small independent requests submitted by many clients simultaneously and operating
  • Performance needed is linear in database size
DSS (Decision Support System)
  • Performance needed can be exponential in database size for sophisticated optimization or queries
Data Warehouse --- operations mixing DSS and OLTP
Data mining --- uncover/extract meaningful information from massive data sources



© on Mon Oct 13 1997