# Reflecting on an Addiction to OLTP Database Performance Optimization

DevFeed: [Reflecting on an Addiction to OLTP Database Performance Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/chasing-the-dragon-of-oltp-databases-33705.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2016/08/chasing-the-dragon-of-oltp-databases.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2016-08-03T16:07:04Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/andy-pavlo-carnegie-mellon-university.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on moving beyond an intense focus on OLTP throughput and database performance. He describes progressively higher H-Store transaction-throughput results and the diminishing personal satisfaction they provided.

## Source excerpt

Andy comes clean and talks about overcoming his database performance addiction problem.