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Introducing Volt Active Data v6.0
Key TakeawaysVolt Active Data v6.0 extends capabilities and simplifies development for fast data applications.v6 adds Geospatial SQL support, allowing location-based…
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Fast Data Recipe: Design Data Pipelines
Key TakeawaysProcessing big data effectively requires multiple specialized database engines.Data arriving at high-velocity systems needs to be processed and captured…
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Openet uses fast data to drive down TCO and support mobile data in real-time
Key TakeawaysOpenet is a leading supplier of real-time business support systems (BSS) serving over 600 million mobile users.Openet sought to…
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Fast Data Recipe: Integrate Streaming Aggregations and Transactions
Key TakeawaysHigh-speed transactional applications process streams of incoming events for real-time use cases like authorization and billing.Writing these applications requires…
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Comparing Cloud Performance With YCSB
Key TakeawaysSoftLayer Bare Metal outperformed full PaaS cloud offerings in both performance and price/performance for the specific YCSB workload B…
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How we Test at Volt Active Data
Key TakeawaysQuality is integrated into the development process from start to finish through well-defined Agile development practices, including thorough user…
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Accelerating continuous integration with Docker – an intern’s story
Key TakeawaysContinuous Integration (CI) is a fundamental process that can be accelerated using technologies like Docker.Virtualization with Docker containers offers…
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An intern’s experience with Volt Active Data Materialized Views
Key TakeawaysYiqun Zhang worked as a software engineering intern on the SQL core team at Volt Active Data, focusing on…
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Bringing Rack-Aware Topology to Volt Active Data
Key TakeawaysVolt Active Data cluster topology determines the placement of partition masters and replicas on physical nodes.Early versions used a…
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Getting around the Transparent Huge Pages trap in Linux
Key TakeawaysThe resident set size (RSS) of the Volt Active Data process was growing when the database was idle on…
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Choosing the Right Tool
Key TakeawaysNoSQL is a broad category of technologies and the term itself is not very descriptive.Eventual-consistency NoSQL systems, like Cassandra…
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FoundationDB’s Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store is Not Enough
Key TakeawaysFoundationDB attempted to add SQL capabilities on top of its core key-value store through ‘Layers,’ but the initial SQL…