[atombender]

But OLTP is online transactional processing. Even with LWT, you arguably just can't do OLTP with Cassandra/Scylla, not without transactions.

[thdxr]

OLTP traditionally refers to the type of updates you do during normal use of your application. Frequent, small and incremental updates vs large sweeping reads and aggregations (OLAP)

The T does stand for transactional but in this context it is not referring to transactions in the database sense