Monday, November 12, 2007

XTPP – eXtreme Transaction Processing Platform

With maturing markets, Gartner has retired some of the mature magic quadrants such as Application Servers, High-Performance Computing and others. This is a result of maturation of the market, vendor consolidation and the rise of some specialized platforms. One such specialized platform is termed as eXtreme Transaction Processing Platform.

In an always on lifestyle, demand for real-time applications is on the rise. Although many of the transactions happen in real-time, the process behind the scene is based on batch architecture. To enables end-to-end processing of transactions in real-time, existing transactional applications will go through dramatic change and therefore require new architecture to meet the demands of for real-time applications.

Today’s high-demand transactional systems use transaction processing monitors. Low-demand transactional systems are implemented using traditional application servers. XTPP will be an alternative to such TPM and App Servers to implement next generation, real-time, high-demand transactional systems.

If traditional transaction processing monitors delivered on performance, scalability and availability and if existing application servers delivered on productivity-oriented applications, XTP platforms would delivers on both fronts. On one hand it meets the needs of extreme performance, unparalleled scalability and continuous availability and on the other hand it supports programming models that delivers on business agility.

No comments: