1. Summary The fundamental underpinning of an organization is its transactions. It must do them well, with integrity and performance. Not only has transaction volume soared of late, but the level of granularity in the transaction details has also reached new heights. Fast transactions greatly improve the efficiency of a high-volume business. Performance is incredibly important. There are a variety of databases available to the transactional application. Ideally, any database would have the required capabilities; however, depending on the application’s scale and the chosen cloud, some database solutions can be prone to delays. Recent trends in information management see organizations shifting their focus to cloud-based solutions. In the past, the only clear choice for most organizations has been on-premises data using on-premises hardware. However, costs of scale are chipping away the notion that this remains the best approach for some, in not all, of a company’s transactional needs. The factors driving operational and analytical data projects to the cloud are many. Still, the advantages, like data protection, high availability, and scale, are realized with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment. In many cases, a hybrid approach serves as an interim step for organizations migrating to a modern, capable cloud architecture.