1. A method for processing a trigger associated with a subject table in a relational database, wherein the trigger defines a triggering statement and one or more triggered actions, the method including: determining that a triggering statement of a trigger will execute on a subject table row of a subject table; requesting a transition table in response to determining that the triggering statement will execute, the transition table including a transition table row, wherein the transition table row comprises at least one value associated with the subject table row; reading the transition table row from the transition table; identifying a processing unit to receive the transition table row and a triggered action of the trigger based on an association between the identified processing unit and a portion of memory; and transmitting the transition table row and the triggered action to the identified processing unit to be processed.