# Open Problems in Transaction Processing (Part 1 of 3): Non-Volatile Memory

DevFeed: [Open Problems in Transaction Processing (Part 1 of 3): Non-Volatile Memory](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/open-problems-in-transaction-processing-part-1-of-3-non-volatile-memory-33697.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2014/06/open-problems-in-transaction-processing-part-1.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2014-06-17T19:55:05Z

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>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [opinion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opinion.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses unresolved research problems in online transaction processing database systems, focusing first on non-volatile memory. It reviews the evolution of main-memory database systems and argues that core main-memory DBMS research is largely mature, while commercial engineering challenges remain.

## Source excerpt

Andy pontificates on open problems of non-volatile memory in OLTP systems research.