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The state of the art in databases has changed quite a bit. But it has stayed with relation databases and the trend to object oriented databases seems very slow. In our opinion, we believe that object oriented databases will have a slight share of the market, and the current market dominators will continue in thier role.

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There are few sites that deal with the theory of database. So, we recommend "An Introduction to Database Systems" by C. J. Date to find out more about why databases work.

Web Sites
http--www.acm.org-classics-nov95- The classic paper by E. F. Codd that is at the base of every relational database.	The Benchmark Handbook Interested in what benchmarks on database mean and what they test? This site will be of interest to you.
Welcome to the TPC Main Page Independent auditors ensure the accuracy of running these benchmarks. If you're investing heavily in hardware to perform transactions, this page is of vital interest!	Database Two Phase Commit An excellent description of a two phase commit and the issues surrounding it.
ODMG Home Page The standards organization for database. Interesting to note that none of the major DB vendors are members.

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TP Monitors

Now that you've got a database, you want to pump as much information through it as possible. How do you do this? One way is to use TP Monitors. This technology is a middle tier specific and concentrates on the scalability of transactions.

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BEA Systems
Check out Tuxedo and Top End products here. TIBCO Software Inc.'s Home Page
Provide the Information Bus, Rendevous and ActiveEnterprise.

COM Technologies Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
Microsoft's offering in the TP Monitoring arena. Starting to see some reasonable benchmarks coming from here. IBM Software Transaction Systems CICS Overview
IBM's offering is that's been around for nearly 30 years.

Message Queuing Overview and Resources [Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0; Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ); Windows NT products
Microsoft's offering in the Message Queue arena. The middle tier strategy seems to be really strong for NT 2000, not so hot for NT 4 though. IBM Software Transaction Systems MQSeries Family Overview
This is the one the rest of them emulate.

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