Operational databases: How they work and when to use them

Operational databases (OLTP) process real-time transactions with ACID guarantees and concurrency.

• •OLTP efficiently handles row-level operations unlike analytical data warehouses
• •Traditional OLTP lacks vector search, unstructured data support, and schema flexibility for AI
• •ETL/CDC pipelines move transactional data from OLTP to data warehouses for analysis
• •Databricks Lakebase unifies operational and analytical workloads with serverless Postgres and elastic storage

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