 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Transactions per second" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(December 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
In a very generic sense, the termtransactions per second (TPS) refers to the number ofatomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restricted view, the term is usually used by theDBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number ofdatabase transactions performed per second.Transactions per minute may be used when the transactions are more complex.
Recently, the term has also been used to describe the transaction rate of acryptocurrency,[1] such as the distributed network running theBitcoinblockchain. The development of transaction ratescapable of scaling to real-world volumes is an important area of research for cryptocurrency technology.
| Types | |
|---|---|
| Concepts | |
| Objects | |
| Components | |
| Functions | |
| Related topics | |
 | This computing article is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information. |
