Just what is a high transaction database

Question

silly question I know, but what is the definition of high transaction database? how many transactions per second constitutes a high, medium and low transactional database?

Answer 1

Heres some thought: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/12/12/10-lessons-from-35k-tps.aspx .

Generally, any banking and financial trading system can be classed as a high-transaction system. But modern social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook etc are also joining the group. I probably didn't answer your question fully, but it should certainly give you some perspective.

[EDIT:] seems like anything >=30k transactions per second are high-transaction systems, so analogously, anything less than that should fall in low and medium transactions.