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Foil 10 General Classes of Commercial Applications

From General Discussion of Parallel Relational Databases CPS600 Spring Semester -- April 1995. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey Fox) * See also color IMAGE

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



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