Daily Term: OLTP

OLTP

OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) systems manage transactional data, focusing on fast, atomic operations like inserts and updates. For example, a retail app might use an OLTP database (e.g., MySQL) to process customer orders in real-time. OLTP ensures data integrity with ACID compliance, optimized for high concurrency and small transactions, but it’s not suited for complex analytics, which is where OLAP systems excel.

Date: 2025-12-30