An approach that handles both transactional and analytical processing within a single database.
Short for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing. An architecture that supports real-time transactional processing and analytical processing within a single database, rather than splitting OLTP and OLAP into separate systems. Products like TiDB or SingleStore are typical examples -- they process transactions on row-oriented storage while continuously replicating those changes to a columnar copy behind the scenes, eliminating the need to build a separate ETL pipeline just for analytics.
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