What is Batch Processing?
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Batch processing runs data in scheduled groups rather than instantly, producing reports, transfers, or transformations.
What is Batch Processing?
Batch processing handles data in groups after a collection period instead of processing each item instantly. Nightly accounting transfers, daily sales reports, and month-end invoice generation are typical examples.
How Does It Work?
A batch process usually includes data collection, validation, transformation, processing, output generation, and error reporting. It may run hourly, daily, weekly, or after a triggering event. Large datasets can be split into chunks, and making each chunk repeatable and idempotent makes recovery easier after failures.
Real-time processing aims for low latency; batch processing handles high-volume work in a more planned and cost-controlled way.
Business Use
Batch processing is common in reporting, bank reconciliation, bulk e-invoice sending, data warehouse loading, price updates, and migration from legacy systems. ETL processes often run in batch mode, while a cron job is a simple and common mechanism for scheduling the work.
Well-designed batch jobs include progress tracking, retries, partial-failure reports, lock management, and runtime alarms.