11. The M database is a key-value database engine optimized for high-throughput transaction processing . 12. First Financial's primary growth has been in transaction processing for merchants. 13. Examples of database-oriented middleware include ODBC, JDBC and transaction processing monitors. 14. The one exception is a fixed-block access method provided for high-volume transaction processing . 15. Valuation risks concern each stage of the transaction processing and investment management chain. 16. CICS is middleware designed to support rapid, high-volume online transaction processing . 17. Application subsystems for database and transaction processing ( CICS and Java and the like. 18. This provides higher performance to database and transaction processing applications. 19. It will support online-transaction processing by about 500 concurrent users. 20. Gray contributed to several major database and transaction processing systems.