Introduction
The purpose of this report is to give an overview of how Paypal manages their online base system. Founded in December1998, Paypal became one of the world’s largest internet based payment system. It is an online electronic payment system where consumers can use to buy and sell goods and services online and making payments. Users can set up an account with just an email address. With this, a user is able to transfer cash from peer to peer without using any credit cards; just bank transfer. A notification will be issued once transaction is done.

Firm Infrastructure
As part of global expansion, Paypal entered NASDAQ to attract investors priced at $13 per share. With this, it had attracted bigger companies and soon a giant company, Ebay, acquired Paypal for $1.5 billion in 2002. This move increases the level of confidence where Ebay consumers could use Paypal for making their transaction. Soon after, it acquire Verisign in 2005 and generated a revenue close to $1.8 billion. However, Paypal can be a threat to banks. Although Paypal does not function like a bank, users can store their cash in Paypal with a minimum balance of $70 (Meola, 2016)

Technology Development
Database Management System
As the world keeps on changing their technology, Paypal ensures that their own technology is also up to date. Being one of the first and largest company to use the Cloud technology, it has created multi layers of applications to ensure that the system is compatible to suit their needs which runs on their private cloud. With this complex technology, they are able to run new applications smoothly and efficiently (Barrese, 2015). Apart from that, Paypal enhanced the speed of their system thus creating stability in transactions. This is done by adopting Node.js; a high speed technology that is designed to allow connections to be handled concurrently and is designed