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Challenges of Handling Debit-Credit Transactions in General-Purpose SQL Databases
This chapter explores the impedance mismatch between general-purpose SQL databases and business transactions, emphasizing the need for specialized databases to efficiently handle complex debit-credit transactions. It discusses the limitations of distributing transactions across machines, the evolution of specialized databases, and the increasing transactional nature of various industries, necessitating more powerful databases for scalability and performance.