1. A method for processing a transaction request at a database load balancer, the method comprising: (a) receiving the transaction request, where the transaction request is comprised of one or more operations to be performed upon a database; (b) analyzing the transaction request to determine the one or more operations and to determine one or more database units associated with the operations; (c) analyzing the transaction requests and the one or more database units to determine one or more database subunits associated with the database units that the transaction request will perform one or more operations upon; (d) associating one or more database locks with each of the one or more operations; (e) determining one or more sequence numbers for one or more of the database locks associated with each of the one or more operations; and (f) transmitting the one or more operations with the one or more unique identifiers for each of the database subunits, the database locks and the sequence numbers to one or more database servers accessible to the database load balancer.