Gartner defines XTP as "an application style characterized by exceptionally
demanding performance, scalability, availability, security, manageability
and dependability requirements.” The emergence and growth of XTP has been
driven by an explosion of transaction requirements in the Finance, Banking,
Retail and Travel industries.

XTP is currently defined as running 100’s of thousands of transactions per
second with millisecond response times. The platform for this style of
computing is generally based on scaled out commodity server solutions.
Typically, these systems are cloud-like, and are based on Open Standards &
Open Source models, as proprietary solutions are not particularly useful.

An example might be a high volume transactional application running against
a large, unpartitionable database. Similarly, we are also likely to see a
high volume application running against multiple large partitionable
databases – and this is typically where we are today. In the future we are
more likely to see highly scaled out partitionable databases – in other
words, cloud-scale server deployments supporting an XTP platform.

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