test

Enterprise IoT

Real-time decisioning

Volt Capabilities

OEMs face incredible challenges today. They’re being asked to do more with less as supply chain and operation overrun issues create a legitimate OEM crisis.  And yet, more often than…

Cloud/Edge

Enterprise IoT

Private 5G networks

Real-time decisioning

Uncategorized

Volt Capabilities

Balancing Low Latency, High Availability and Cloud Choice Cloud hosting is no longer just an option — it’s now, in many cases, the default choice.  But the cloud computing market,…

Cloud/Edge

Enterprise IoT

Private 5G networks

Real-time decisioning

Uncategorized

Volt Capabilities

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or…

high availability

Scalability

Streaming/Kafka

Volt Capabilities

We’ve been writing a lot about challenges lately. We recently wrote about API challenges – now we’re discussing challenges with Kafka Streams.  Volt is very big on Kafka, as we specialize in complementing…

Volt Capabilities

Acid transactions,  ACID properties, and the CAP theorem are two important concepts in data management and distributed systems. It’s unfortunate that in both acronyms the “C” stands for “Consistency,” but…

APIs

Over the last couple of years, we’ve heard a lot of breathless talk about application programming interfaces (APIs) and how they’re going to change everything.  APIs exist to solve a…

caches

high availability

Real-time decisioning

Real-Time Use Cases

Zero downtime

Companies like to complicate things.  There’s no better way to say it.  The law of entropy clearly applies as much to tech stacks and data management as it does to…

high availability

Real-time decisioning

Real-Time Use Cases

Zero downtime

In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability, aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word.  Why? Because until recently, most computer interaction was human-to-computer, and humans…

Enterprise IoT

Fraud Prevention

Hyper-Personalization

Latency

Real-time decisioning

Real-Time Use Cases

Scalability

Telco/5G

Zero downtime

Imagine the digital world as a bustling highway, where data packets are vehicles racing to their destinations. In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic:…

Enterprise IoT

Fraud Prevention

Hyper-Personalization

Latency

Real-time decisioning

Real-Time Use Cases

Scalability

Telco/5G

Zero downtime

Enterprise customers that require ‘five nines’ availability need it as a guarantee, not just a vague promise. That’s why we’ve introduced Volt In-Service Upgrade  “Active(ISU)”, which allows you to upgrade…

Cloud/Edge

Cost/TCO

Enterprise IoT

Latency

Real-Time Use Cases

Scalability

Total cost of ownership (TCO) has become a major headache for most tech companies whose product and/or services rely on being fast while staying reliable and accurate. It’s wonderful if…

Cloud/Edge

Enterprise IoT

Latency

Real-Time Use Cases

The rapid growth and proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way organizations collect, process, and utilize operational data.  As the global IoT market continues to grow rapidly —…

Hyper-Personalization

Real-Time Use Cases

Today we announced our latest release, Volt Active Data 13.1— giving our customers a whole new level of no-compromise real-time data processing.  You probably already know the gist, but let’s quickly…

Hyper-Personalization

Real-Time Use Cases

The big shopping season may be over, but it’s never too late for retailers to prepare for the next big shopping surge – before it has a chance to break their…

AI/ML

Enterprise IoT

Real-Time Use Cases

Streaming/Kafka

2023 was a huge year for real-time data processing. Enterprises are more focused than ever using real-time data to guide the path forward, and things like AI are changing the…

AI/ML

Real-Time Use Cases

Over the last year or so, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from something most people consider science fiction to an increasingly accessible technology anyone can use.  Thanks to the rise…

Cloud/Edge

Real-Time Use Cases

Scalability

Streaming/Kafka

Volt Capabilities

Volt has been involved with the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) for some time. Every now and then we re-run the benchmark to see how we’re holding up. We recently re-ran it…

Real-Time Use Cases

SQL vs NoSQL

Volt Capabilities

A lot of companies use Volt Active Data for classic Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), but why would you pick Volt as an OLTP data platform and how would a Volt-based…

Cloud/Edge

Real-Time Use Cases

The convergence of two powerful technologies — edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) — is transforming the way organizations generate, process, manage, and utilize data. As more and more organizations deploy IoT…

Cloud/Edge

Hyper-Personalization

Real-Time Use Cases

TechSparks’23, organized by YourStory Media, was an amazing three-day conference covering valuable insight and learnings from the very top of the Indian government to founders of transformative companies growing at speed….

Real-Time Use Cases

THIS BLOG IS PART 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES. PART 1 DELVED INTO BENCHMARK DATA. PART 3 WILL DISCUSS SPECIFIC VOLT + REDPANDA USE CASES. Needing to act quickly on…

Telco/5G

My colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Data Transformation World (DTW) 2023  in Copenhagen. This was our second year attending and definitely won’t be our last! Unlike Mobile World Congress (MWC),…

Real-Time Use Cases

THIS BLOG IS PART 1 OF A 3-PART SERIES. PART 2 WILL PROVIDE A HIGH-LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE WHEN YOU COMBINE VOLT WITH REDPANDA; PART 3 WILL…

Cloud/Edge

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital connectivity, private networks are emerging as a critical solution for organizations and industries seeking more secure, more reliable computing infrastructure.  Unlike traditional multi-tenant…

Cloud/Edge

Enterprise IoT

Real-Time Use Cases

Volt Capabilities

We’re excited to announce very strong results from benchmarking Volt Active Data on Supermicro edge hardware. Supermicro is a global technology leader committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI,…

Real-Time Use Cases

Volt Capabilities

Here at Volt we see a lot of customers who come to us having devoted heartbreaking amounts of time, energy, and money to trying to make old and/or broken systems…

Real-Time Use Cases

In today’s data-driven age, organizations need to make smart decisions when it comes to how they manage their data.  To this end, there are two key technologies used to store,…

Real-Time Use Cases

In the era of big data, organizations are grappling with vast amounts of information that can hold immense value if harnessed effectively. Traditional methods of real-time data processing and analysis are no…

Real-Time Use Cases

Streaming/Kafka

Streaming data has become practically ubiquitous. From social media feeds to IoT sensors, businesses are now inundated with real-time data. The challenge is not only to store this data but…

Cloud/Edge

As more and more companies move their applications and services to the cloud, breaking up monoliths into a number of microservices, networking has become a critical component of any cloud-native architecture. …

Real-Time Use Cases

Streaming/Kafka

We’ve been hearing a lot about real-time data platforms and also about streaming data and streaming data-enabling messaging technology such as Apache Kafka.  The idea is to turn your streaming…

Cloud/Edge

Enterprise IoT

As 5G networks become more ubiquitous, smart organizations are laser-focused on doing everything they can to deliver lightning-fast performance to their users to improve experiences, generate new revenue streams, and optimize efficiency….

Real-Time Use Cases

Streaming/Kafka

Simply put: in the year 2023 and for the foreseeable future, businesses need to be able to process and analyze data in real time to remain competitive.  Streaming data platforms…

Real-Time Use Cases

Real-time decisioning has rapidly gained popularity within the tech zeitgeist, especially with its connection to streaming data.  It seems like everything these days either happens in real time or it doesn’t…

Cloud/Edge

Enterprise IoT

THIS BLOG OUTLINES THE Q&A PART OF THE JOINT STL PARTNERS AND VOLT ACTIVE DATA WEBINAR ON EDGE IOT PLATFORMS IN FEBRUARY 2023. THE SPEAKERS ARE DAVID ROLFE, HEAD OF PRODUCT MARKETING,…

Cloud/Edge

Enterprise IoT

In recent years, two rapidly developing technologies have been transforming the way organizations build and use applications: edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT).  In the simplest terms: edge computing refers to…

Hyper-Personalization

Real-Time Use Cases

Over the last ten years, there’s been a lot of talk about real-time data and real-time decisioning, and how they promise to transform how organizations operate.  Up until recently, however, “real time”…

Streaming/Kafka

Apache Kafka is now the official gatekeeper of streaming data. It’s a distributed data store designed and perfectly calibrated to ingest and process streaming data (ie, data continuously generated by thousands…

Volt Capabilities

The adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open and otherwise, has become a ‘topic du jour’. API usage continues to surge and many API-based tools are emerging to help developers and engineering…

Streaming/Kafka

Everyone has Kafka issues. Well, maybe not everyone, but most companies that end up using Apache Kafka in any meaningful way do end up facing certain Kafka challenges, most of…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

Last week I had the chance to speak in two separate panels at RCR Wireless’s 5G Monetization Forum: “Creating a Win-Win Business Model for all Players in the Value Chain“ and…

Volt Capabilities

As 2023 gets going, most companies are still pretty obsessed with “data”—as we are. Data is “the new oil”. You knew that already. But trends within the vast data realm come and…

Latency

Scalability

In 2021, the fantasy sports market brought in an impressive $24 billion. By 2030, that number is projected to increase to $78.5 billion, growing nearly 14 percent each year.  This growth is…

Telco/5G

There’s going to be a lot of crazy tech-related predictions for next year. This blog may even be the fourth or fifth (or tenth, for that matter) “2023 predictions” blog…

Real-Time Use Cases

An event-driven microservices architecture is an approach to software development where decoupled microservices are designed to communicate with one another when events occur. These architectures are comprised of three critical features: Event…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

My colleagues and I just got back from TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2022  in Copenhagen. It was the first in-person DTW in three years and my first time attending….

Real-Time Use Cases

Eventual consistency is a data modeling concept that ensures that updates made to distributed NoSQL databases will eventually be reflected across all nodes. This ensures that identical database queries will…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

While customer data platforms (CDPs) and “regular” data platforms, or data management platforms, might sound similar and might provide organizations with similar benefits, they are not the same. They can,…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

Over the last few years, the market for multi-access edge computing (MEC) has changed considerably.  In 2020, just 7% of communications service providers (CSPs) had deployed MEC solutions commercially, according…

Cloud/Edge

Fraud Prevention

Telco/5G

This blog provides the Q&A from the Jun. 21 STL Partners and Volt Active Data webinar, “5G Orchestration: A Critical Enabler of New Revenue Streams”. Some of the webinar’s insights were based on…

Enterprise IoT

Enterprise IoT represents the next phase in the evolution of the Internet of Things, wherein enterprises increasingly invest in connected physical products that have embedded computing devices in them in…

Hyper-Personalization

Real-Time Use Cases

Volt Capabilities

Recently I flew from Dublin, where I live, to Volt’s new HQ outside Boston. Apart from the usual travel delays and headaches, what made the journey stand out was the…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

The 5G era is an exciting one for CSPs, who are uniquely positioned to tap into new revenue streams via lightning-fast connectivity and bespoke, on-demand architecture for the customers that…

Enterprise IoT

While the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a mainstream concept for more than a decade, we’re finally entering the age where widespread adoption amongst enterprises is occurring.  In fact,…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

As telcos focus on unlocking the full value of 5G, leading operators are paying more and more attention to the edge. After all, edge computing promises to deliver transformative benefits to operators, enabling…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

Cloud-native deployments have transformed software development. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2021 Annual Survey, 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. More specifically, 5.6 million developers are using Kubernetes,…

Telco/5G

Convergent charging is a solution that enables telco operators to offer and manage a variety of different services — including voice, video, data, and multimedia — and charge customers on…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Quality of Service (QoS) encompasses the tools and technologies that enable telco operators to ensure networks, applications, and services are highly performant regardless of network capacity. By giving network admins…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

High availability describes systems or networks that can operate continuously, with minimal downtime, even during peak usage. The advent of 5G has made high availability more important than ever as…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

The data world is changing faster than ever—but it’s always changing faster than ever. The speeds and volumes at which data now enters enterprise systems are of course far greater than even…

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

Network slicing is the process of dividing physical networks into several smaller virtual networks that can be configured to support unique architectures, rules, performance characteristics, and security features based on…

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

NOTE: SINCE THIS WEBINAR TOOK PLACE, VOLTDB HAS CHANGED ITS NAME TO VOLT ACTIVE DATA. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN LEARNING WHY, PLEASE SEE AN EXPLANATION AROUND THEIR RENAMING IN THIS…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

If, like me, you’re a regular attendee of Mobile World Congress (MWC), you probably devoted a lot of time and energy to set up meetings for MWC 2020, only to…

Real-Time Use Cases

Volt Capabilities

A cloud-native network function (CNF), also known as container(ized) network function, is a network function designed to run inside containers, which are standardized units of software that bundle code so…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

It is my pleasure to announce that, as of today, we are no longer VoltDB and are now Volt Active Data.  It’s an important move that reflects how we’ve grown…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

As of today, VoltDB is no longer VoltDB, we are Volt Active Data—a name-modification that’s been a long-time coming and has involved numerous internal discussions, late-night realizations, early-morning coffees, and, potentially,…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

5G offers telecom carriers a golden opportunity to move up the value chain from mass-scale, standardized B2C commodity products to higher-value enterprise solutions for B2B and B2B2X (businesses offering services…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

Edge computing has been around for a while now, but the arrival of 5G has opened another door to take edge computing capabilities (and results) to an unprecedented level—IF you…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

This year saw a more-rapid-than-ever growth in the telco 5G ecosystem. With bigger investments in research and development, improved network coverage, and government support, the business breakthroughs of 5G are more compelling…

Telco/5G

Can 5G change the world and our lives? Not surprisingly, Volt Active Data and our 5G technology partner Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) know the answer is an emphatic “Yes!” 5G will…

Telco/5G

Streamlined billing hasn’t really been “a thing” until recently, thanks to the ever-more-complicated operational ecosystems of communications service providers (CSPs).  With 5G, IoT, convergent charging systems, and other relatively new…

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

NOTE: THIS BLOG IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF THE Q&A SESSION FROM OUR RECENT WEBINAR WITH STL PARTNERS, “5G AS A GROWTH ENGINE: HOW DO TELCO IT SYSTEMS NEED TO EVOLVE?”…

Volt Capabilities

One great thing (of many) about working in the data management space: there’s never a lack of twists and turns to keep things interesting. As Americans settle in with their…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

The communications industry has evolved quite a bit over the last few years with the proliferation of 5G networks and the arrival of new voice, video, data, and multimedia services….

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Volt Active Data powers the contest engine at the heart of Dream11—the largest and most exciting fantasy sports platform on the planet. Datadog’s integration with Volt Active Data enables Dream11…

Telco/5G

Introduction The concept of open source has been integral to promoting a generation of NoSQL database platforms, each of which has a VC-funded backer and many of which now have…

SQL vs NoSQL

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

Introduction NoSQL databases became “en mode” some time around 2012 and sprouted a database revolution that led many enterprises to replace their traditional RDBMS technology with NoSQL-based data platforms.  What’s…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Many operators and systems integrators are now overhauling their tech stacks to prepare for the 5G era. As a result, they need to take a fresh look at the policy…

Telco/5G

A new report from TM Forum – and sponsored by Volt Active Data – delves into the B2B market opportunity for CSPs, tapping into an extensive survey of 205 people working inside 82 CSPs worldwide. Respondents…

Real-Time Use Cases

SQL vs NoSQL

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

Note: This is the first part of a three-part blog series on NoSQL database technology. Introduction A lot of companies that end up as Volt Active Data customers started out…

Cloud/Edge

Volt Capabilities

Many enterprises strive to differentiate themselves from their competitors by providing jazzy new features and functionality. But it’s the businesses that are on 24 x 7 x 365 that get…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

Volt Active Data and AWS have partnered to make the Volt Active Data Platform available in AWS Wavelength, a new and already publicly available AWS Infrastructure offering optimized for mobile edge…

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR) is an essential technology that facilitates data failover and disaster recovery. By replicating data across multiple data centers in different geographical locations, XDCR guarantees continuous…

Cloud/Edge

Real-Time Use Cases

Streaming/Kafka

Telco/5G

Streaming data is data that flows in continuously from highly distributed sources. These data streams are constantly feeding data that data platforms can use or act upon dynamically and in real…

Telco/5G

Today’s telco operators have two key needs: the need for their applications and data need to be in multiple physical locations at once to prevent data loss, and the need…

Telco/5G

A microservices architecture is a modular approach to application development that allows developers to deliver large, complex applications reliably and swiftly. Applications—such as those for customer management, charging, or billing—consist…

Telco/5G

To deliver reliable, fast, and responsive services, providers demand real-time automation informed by actionable insights gleaned from the torrents of data and device telemetry events streaming through their networks.  For…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Real-time billing mediation is the process of using up-to-the-second data usage information to proactively identify errors, prevent inaccurate invoicing, notify customers about usage thresholds, and more.  Telecom operators and communications…

Cloud/Edge

Fraud Prevention

In last week’s blog I questioned the need for DBAs, concluding that yes, DBAs are still valuable in the current data platform environment due to: 1. the need for people…

Telco/5G

I recently fielded a question from a former co-worker who works as a senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA). I spent much of my career with Oracle, and I’ve asked myself…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Why Enterprises Need Contextual Decisioning The world today is faster-paced than ever before, and the explosive growth of both 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a greater…

Cloud/Edge

Telco/5G

Recently we announced we had joined Google Cloud’s 5G Edge/ISV partner initiative, and that we would be available in Google Cloud with Anthos as a platform for delivering applications and…

Telco/5G

This was a Mobile World Congress (MWC) like no other.  Thanks to COVID, I was not there with a team of five-plus colleagues, pounding the halls, connecting with customers and…

Telco/5G

More and more organizations are seeking to operationalize their decisions into software-enabled platforms as part of their digital transformation.  These same organizations have invested quite heavily (and recently) in big…

Telco/5G

An in-memory database is a modern data management system that stores data in the system’s main memory (most often RAM), as opposed to a traditional database that uses disk/device storage….

Telco/5G

80% of your data will be unstructured within four years, according to Data Management Solutions Review. Perhaps not surprisingly, the vast majority of the 100 or so new database products…

Telco/5G

Network as a Service is a cloud computing model in which managed cloud vendors provide virtualized network equipment and networking functionality as a subscription service. A concept similar to the…

Telco/5G

5G promises a brave new world of connectivity. Be it life-saving remote surgery, immersive learning, intelligent fraud detection, or predictive resource conservation, everything is possible. This is because the new…

Telco/5G

Every day, we move deeper into the 5G era, as the new technology rapidly becomes the standard for telco providers. In fact, it’s expected that 5G will account for 1.2…

Telco/5G

Volt Active Data is the fastest, most reliable data platform for processing high-volume, business-critical data. Kubernetes is a robust orchestration suite that helps automate the management and operation of your…

Telco/5G

Advances in 5G have given telecom providers the opportunity to adopt agile, future-proof infrastructures. Organizations that adapt their data platforms as 5G capabilities evolve, or those that anticipate changes, will…

Telco/5G

To successfully monetize their infrastructure investments and make 5G-based capabilities a reality, telecom operators need to explore both enterprise and consumer markets. Digital twins have become a common practice for…

Telco/5G

A FutureIoT article published this month by Fuad Siddiqui, senior partner and vice president at Nokia Bell Labs, describes a new era of 5G he calls “5G+”. In this era,…

Telco/5G

A data platform is a total stack solution for end-to-end data processing, from ingestion to action. Data platforms are typically used to process very large data sets at scale without…

Telco/5G

Recently Gartner issued a newly updated version of its foundational research report, Maturity Model For Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). We believe it is required reading for leaders of any real-time-sensitive digital…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Directing Network Traffic with Telco Policies Imagine a crowded New York street. There are pedestrians shuffling along on the sidewalks, Ubers—yes, Lyfts and yellow cabs, too—jostling ahead, bicyclists weaving through…

Telco/5G

Telco operators across the globe have been making heavy infrastructure investments to enable 5G rollouts. Boston Consulting Group anticipates that US communications service providers (CSPs) alone will spend more than…

Cloud/Edge

Hyper-Personalization

Real-Time Use Cases

To get ahead, telcos need to explore new business models and technologies that foster a deeper understanding of consumer behavior and drive engagement. One service model that aligns with this…

Telco/5G

Big data and analytics offer a key source of revenue for telcos at a time when many are looking for new growth avenues, according to a new report from Research…

Hyper-Personalization

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

Today’s telcos and communication service providers (CSPs) are seeking new ways to monetize their offerings and services, especially in light of 5G, IoT, and industrial IoT. In their quest to…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

In February, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched a new Enterprise Communications Technology Group (CTG) to help telcos and enterprises capitalize on the 5G opportunity. As a partner of HPE, the…

Telco/5G

Volt Active Data was recently added to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a Linux Foundation subsidiary that is committed to building sustainable cloud ecosystems. As big believers in cloud-native…

Telco/5G

Volt Capabilities

Business support systems (BSS)—specifically, charging and policy functions—hold the key to monetizing 5G investments for telecommunications companies and their partners. However, for this key to unlock new revenue for communication…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

It’s shaping up to be a massive year of growth for 5G, with major telecom providers like T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T competing for market dominance. Over the next several months,…

SQL vs NoSQL

Telco/5G

Why NewSQL Beats SQL & NoSQL in the Race to 5G As today’s leading communication service providers (CSPs) begin to roll out 5G networks and new business support services (BSS),…

Volt Capabilities

In 2020, Volt Active Data became easier to operate, easier to develop on, easier to integrate into your data pipeline, and, thanks to our latest Long-Term Support (LTS) release, V9.3,…

Telco/5G

Modern telcos have a bandwidth issue—not the same bandwidth-limitation issue they’ve had for the last three decades or so but the fact that an entirely new and far more powerful…

Telco/5G

We were thrilled to see our customer Dream11, a fantasy sports platform, lauded in India’s Economic Times for its ability to manage millions of concurrent users while it runs thousands…

Telco/5G

When you have a once-in-a-century global health pandemic running into a game-changing technology (5G), a lot can happen. The telecommunications sector and its various moving parts, including operators, vendors, and…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

CSPs: What’s your BSS sourcing and partnering strategy, and is it truly 5G-ready? That’s the central question addressed by Gartner’s Market Guide for CSP Business Support System Solutions, which explores…

Volt Capabilities

We’re delighted to hear—and (re)announce—that our long-term partner, Openet, which was acquired by global media and communications leader Amdocs earlier this year, has been recognized as the 2020 Global Entrepreneurial…

Volt Capabilities

IoT. Edge computing. Digital transformation. 5G. It seems we’ve been hearing all of these terms for a while now. While each has its own powerful implications for how companies will…

Volt Capabilities

Over the last decade, SQL has fallen out of fashion and is now seeing a resurgence. As applications become more complex, people realize they need a data manipulation language, and…

Volt Capabilities

Until recently, “Real Time” meant more or less whatever you wanted it to mean, as the majority of interactions took place at human time scales. As we move to an…

Telco/5G

5G has a headline requirement for 1ms latencies. Legacy RDBMS products can’t come anywhere near this. Many newer database products will face serious problems because they use Eventual Consistency. Why?…

Volt Capabilities

There’s a lot of talk right now about how 5G and the IIoT will increase volumes of ‘transactions’ driven by streaming events, but equally, there’s a lot of hand waving…

Volt Capabilities

SCOOBY-DOO and all related characters and elements © & ™ Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers. My youngest child recently went through a brief ‘Scooby-Doo’ phase. After it ended I asked him…

Real-Time Use Cases

Redis recently announced a US$100M round of funding; a positive sign for the industry, especially in the current challenging environment. In the article, co-founder and CTO Yiftach Shoolman states ambitiously…

Volt Capabilities

Volt Active Data has just released V10 – a momentous milestone in our evolution from a very fast, highly-available ACID database to a complete fast data solution. Built to handle…

Real-Time Use Cases

An excerpt from our latest whitepaper, “Proactive Fraud Prevention for Enterprise IoT” Throughout the history of computing, a clear pattern has emerged of malign activity that exploits standards and norms,…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

While we applaud other vendors reaffirming what we here at Volt Active Data have been professing and delivering on, for several years, simply adding a few buzzwords doesn’t cut it….

Telco/5G

Last week, Amdocs, the global leader in communications and media, acquired Openet. Here at Volt Active Data, we are thrilled and proud to hear the news! For the past 7…

Volt Capabilities

Recently, experts from Volt Active Data presented a webinar, “The Hidden Inflection Point in 5G: When the Changing Definition of Real-Time Breaks Your Existing Tech Stack”. In this webinar, Dheeraj…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

There’s a lot of buzz around how 5G will impact industry 4.0, but there’s not a whole lot out there about why it’s important to consider upgrading to 5G to…

Real-Time Use Cases

Telco/5G

A lot of the mainstream media coverage of 5G revolves around the potential benefits for the individual consumers, such as AR/VR gaming. But the truth of the matter is that…

Telco/5G

And Why It Matters for Telcos In a very well written Forbes article this week, Olivier Garret – founding Partner and CEO of RiskHedge – states that edge computing is…

Telco/5G

Recently, experts from Volt Active Data presented a webinar, 3 Keys to Unlock 5G Monetization: Real-time Data, Automated Decisions, BSS Modernization. The webinar focused on the ways that moving to…

Volt Capabilities

We’re happy to announce the release of Volt Active Data V9.3. In this release, we improved the uptime and stability of Volt Active Data, re-engineered the Streaming Export subsystem with…

Telco/5G

5G is fundamentally different from 4G, LTE, or any other network the telecommunications industry has ever seen before. It promises data rates 100x that of 4G, network latency of under…

Volt Capabilities

Third post in a series on features of Volt Active Data Version 9.2. Version 9.2 of Volt Active Data introduces two new features that are highly relevant to people developing…

Volt Capabilities

Second post in a series on features of Volt Active Data Version 9.2. Version 9.2 of Volt Active Data introduces two new features that are highly relevant to people developing…

Volt Capabilities

First post in a series on features of Volt Active Data Version 9.2. Version 9.2 of Volt Active Data introduces two new features that are highly relevant to people developing…

Telco/5G

Recently, experts from Volt Active Data and Openet teamed up to co-host the webinar, “Monetizing Enterprise 5G: Harnessing the $600B Opportunity with Real-Time Data”. The webinar focused on the lucrative…

Telco/5G

Here at Volt Active Data we have been stressing the importance of utilizing a in-memory data management platform for stateful stream processing as a trend for the future. It seems…

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We’re happy to announce the release of Volt Active Data V9.2. In this release, we introduce features that will speed up your development and deployment cycle and give you even…

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YCSB is a well known benchmark that was devised by a group at Yahoo! Research led by Brian F. Cooper. It came about because the proliferation of what the authors…

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Introduction The “Telecom Application Transaction Processing” benchmark was devised to model telco system behavior for benchmark purposes. The documentation describes it as follows: The Telecommunication Application Transaction Processing (TATP) benchmark…

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Introduction In this post I’d like to highlight voltdb-chargingdemo, which I’ve recently made available on github. Most demos are designed to be as simplistic as possible. I’ve always found that…

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I’m happy to announce the release of V9.1. In this release, we’ve simplified the integration of Volt Active Data into your application stack by adding more functionality to streaming export….

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Recently, we hosted our webinar, “Is Your 5G Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”, hosted in conjunction with FierceWireless. This unique session, Volt Active Data’s Chief Technologist, Dheeraj Remella engaged in…

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Last month we hosted our webinar, “Is Your 5G Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”, hosted in conjunction with FierceWireless. It was a unique webinar in which Volt Active Data’s Chief…

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Last month we hosted our webinar, “Is Your 5G Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”, hosted in conjunction with FierceWireless. It was a unique webinar in which Volt Active Data’s Chief…

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At our recent webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”, we received a number of questions from attendees about Volt Active Data and how it works. From integrating Volt…

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In today’s digitally driven world, processing streaming data in real-time is a requirement for business success. The introduction of 5G networks will only increase the data volume and speed requirements…

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5G architecture recommends a service-based approach to enable end-to-end software defined network functions. Initially virtualization-based – and now heading toward containerization — a service-based approach inherently leads to a need…

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Traditional pub/sub systems such as Apache Kafka (and their numerous ever evolving stream processing avatars like Apache Samza, Apache Storm, Apache Flink, etc.) work fine for a bunch of simple…

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We are hard at work on Volt Active Data and are pleased to release V9. This release focuses on new ways to work with the torrents of streaming data that…

Telco/5G

As 5G architectures are getting rolled-out, we are seeing a spike in RFPs from the largest mobile operators. The CSPs we are talking to across the globe are racing to…

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Need 640K TPS and perfectly accurate running totals? Volt Active Data has the answer. But it’s not what you’d expect… Anyone who has worked in the OLTP RDBMS space for…

Telco/5G

As 5G gets rolled out across the world, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are focused on reinventing existing apps to adapt to the high velocity streaming data generated by 5G networks….

Real-Time Use Cases

Recently, data warehouse architect and industry expert, John Ryan, wrote an article about the evolution of database architecture. In it, he reviews traditional database and machine architectures (Oracle, Microsoft, IBM),…

Telco/5G

Recently, Chief Technologist, Dheeraj Remella, spoke with Don Witt, of Telecom Reseller, about the future of 5G on Witt’s telecom podcast. Listen to the conversation to hear Remella’s thoughts on:…

Telco/5G

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Recently our team put together notes from the field into a new whitepaper: The 5G Revolution. In it, we discuss the fact that 5G demands software capabilities and methodologies that…

Telco/5G

Digital competence: that is the name of game. From the humble beginnings of the world wide web, we are now on the verge of reaching a wireless digital utopia where…

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Fraud has been an ongoing problem for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and their customers for decades, with a ever evolving cat and mouse game being played out between CSPs and…

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Are you preparing for the impending move to end-to-end 5G in 2019? Join our webinar, Wednesday, February 6, to investigate and understand how data plays an important role in new…

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When it finally comes about in the next two or three years, the 5G telecom standard will bring with it radical changes to the way we use data. Many people…

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Happy New Year! To ring in 2019, we have a new version of Volt Active Data available to you with some new features and improvements that we think you’re going…

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Dr. Michael Stonebraker is widely considered as the founder of the modern database. In 2015 he won the prestigious A. M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the concepts and…

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Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally posted on the VanillaPlus 5G webinar blog on December 13, 2018. As we approach 2019, we are on the cusp of 5G roll-out….

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At our recent webinar, “NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Evaluating Database Technologies for 2019”, we received a number of questions from attendees about Volt Active Data’s capabilities and architecture. From orchestrating Volt…

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In this video of his Fast Data London 2018 keynote, Dr. Stonebraker focuses on the current market for “Big Data” products, specifically those that deal with one or more of “the…

Telco/5G

Since joining Volt Active Data exactly 3 years ago as a Sales Engineer, I have worked with customers from different industries and with different fast data challenges. One of my…

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Traditionally advanced analytics was utilized primarily to gain an historical understanding of business performance. Data scientists spent countless hours mining, munging, and model building; wasting expensive resources and valuable time…

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Wow, what a summer. It feels like our interns just arrived and now they’re all back to school. With their help we’ve shipped some great features in V8.3: Better SPI…

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In the previous articles, Getting Machine Learning into Production and Using Volt Active Data to Get H20 into Production, I discussed the broad problems you face when you try to…

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Recently, we held a webinar, hosted by one of our engineers, entitled “Discussion & Demo — Machine Learning with True Real-Time Decisioning”. In it, we explored how intelligent real-time decisioning…

Telco/5G

Kubernetes has quickly become the most popular container orchestration solution with DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers. Kubernetes was developed and then open sourced by Google, it supports not just Docker…

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Congratulations! You’ve mastered machine learning and can now generate a model that will help your enterprise succeed. There’s just one problem. Or rather several, actually. Below we discuss the challenges…

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We are excited to announce the availability of the Volt Active Data Enterprise Edition on AWS, a in-memory operational SQL database. Volt Active Data powers applications that require real-time intelligent…

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This week, we released Volt Active Data v8.2. Here are some of the highlights: Table TTL If you’ve ever built a high-volume app for Volt, or hooked Volt up to…

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Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having…

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Recently, I read the McKinsey article “Breaking away: The secrets to scaling analytics.” The article discussed their findings on the importance of analytics to a company’s success. Unsurprisingly, they found…

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Editor’s Note: This blog post originally appeared on the Vanilla Plus blog on May 30, 2018. Digital transformation has become one of those industry-swamping buzz phrases that emerges to dominate…

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We are pleased to announce Volt Active Data v8.1. This release includes features that can reduce the total cost of ownership of your Volt Active Data solution, with improvements to…

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Database Blog Trends, First Half 2018 Looking back over the first half of the year, we notice three trends in reader interest with our blog posts. They are: Defining the…

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As we enter the 5G era, strategic telcos are digitizing their infrastructures to not only handle the explosion of data requirements, but to also take advantage of the new business…

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There is a massive difference between generating the input data needed by a Machine Learning model once (to prove a concept), and doing it continuously, indefinitely, at scale, and within…

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In my previous blog on big data analytics, we discussed how to apply your big data analytics to real-time applications. The idea is that, if you have built analytics on your…

Enterprise IoT

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The world is speeding up; people expect customized information and services immediately. In these tumultuous times, some companies are clinging to their legacy data infrastructure as a security blanket. However,…

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Recently we held our Q1 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. Volt Active Data engineering is a Agile scrum organization,…

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Not surprisingly, your business has collected a lot of data over the past few years, and you have used some analytical databases or data warehouses to organize and understand your…

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Telco/5G

Editor’s Note: This was originally posted by VanillaPlus, regarding a webinar VanillaPlus hosted featuring Beccham Research and Volt Active Data. With the ever-nearing move to 5G and the impending explosion…

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5G isn’t just an incremental increase in speed and bandwidth, it’s the new face of the network and a key driver of the digital revolution. Until now, the technology was…

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2017 was a breakout year for mobile gaming. Even though games only accounted for 40% of the total mobile app downloads for 2017, a total of 80% of app spending…

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Recently, we hosted a webinar entitled “The Humble Cloud Architect: What is Your Database Strategy?” We had a number of excellent questions during that session, including some that we did…

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It’s just about official—blockchain has taken over the world. Or, to be more accurate, the idea of blockchain has taken over the world. In recent months, we’ve seen Long Island…

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In 1972, Dr. Edsger Dijkstra wrote “The Humble Programmer,” in which he laid out his ideas about how to best write computer programs. Back in that world, programming was a…

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Recently Forrester group has started to talk about “translytics” and Translytical Databases – databases that can “Deliver Analytics At The Speed Of Transactions”. Is this more marketing hype? Or is there…

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Previously, I critiqued the Forrester Wave Translytical Data Platforms Q4 2017 report. At the end, I promised to provide a list of criteria to evaluate translytical databases. In order to…

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Volt Active Data is pleased to announce V8. Our engineering team has spent the last year adding features across the product to bring you the fastest database to handle millions…

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Getting up to date answers about recent events and asking the same question about older data is really hard to do using open source. The Lambda Architecture is a somewhat…

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Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on December 2, 2017.Despite multiple challenger technologies (eg. Object Oriented databases), the…

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The world has changed massively in the past 20 years. Back in the year 2000, a few million users connected to the web using a 56k modem attached to a…

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Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on January 10, 2018. The world has changed massively in the past 20 years….

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Docker is a powerful tool that many of our customers and community members use for the development and testing of distributed systems. What You’ll Learn in This Video Recently, our…

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The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions…

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Forrester recently published a new Wave™ report on Translytical Data Platforms. In it, they define a Translytical Data Platform as: “A unified and integrated data platform that supports multi-workloads such…

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The internet is ablaze with articles and talk about hardware security flaws found recently in most modern processors, including chips from Intel and AMD – that is, in the processors…

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…and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone! In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start of a new year, we at Volt Active Data decided…

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Previously in part one of this blog series, I explained the problems with two methods of database interactions. Traditional JDBC-style interactions mean that locking and latching take up ~30% of compute…

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First off: I’m not here to bash NoSQL. NoSQL came into existence for a good reason — your generic legacy SQL RDBMS is often slow and expensive when compared to…

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It’s that time of year — the “wrap up/planning” blogs are among us as we look to a new year. With that, Volt Active Data has decided to put together…

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CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Virtualization of appliances…

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For decades, relational databases was the de-facto choice for financial service companies, until the 2000s where systems started to face challenges with scalability and availability as the amount of data…

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In this post we describe Volt Active Data’s high availability architecture and how it interacts with bonded networks. Together they offer protection and continuity against network failovers. How do we…

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Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on November 1, 2017 on the InfoWorld blog. It is republished with permission. Even Google and Amazon can’t process data instantly—here’s how to combat…

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Gamers want real-time offers and micro-transactions — but only if they are useful. This is a key finding from The Psychology of Waiting, a survey of 2,000 US consumers conducted…

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Modern applications have two primary needs: performance and ease of operations, both at scale. Performance The performance consists of two aspects: throughput and latency. Both are driven by applications becoming…

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Volt Active Data and DBTA teamed up to host a webinar in October titled “Architectural Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale”. We had a number of excellent…

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Consumer finances today largely exist online. More than 60% of consumers reported using a banking website and mobile app, according to The Psychology of Waiting survey, commissioned by Volt Active…

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Rising Amounts of Information As we look at total amount of information created world wide, we see an exponentially rising curve. According to the 2017 Internet Trends study, the amount…

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3 common real-time application patterns that require a real-time decision Editor’s note: This blog post first appeared on the InfoWorld blog on September 29, 2017. At first glance, building a…

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Millennials are at the forefront of influencing change across multiple industries. From Applebee’s to Harley’s, real-estate to football, millennials are changing how the economy works. Following basic economic principles, if…

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My three-month-long internship at Volt Active Data was meaningful and unforgettable. By working with all the talents in this company, I’ve learned countless coding techniques, which deepened my knowledge of…

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My name is Dinesh Majeti and I am a Ph.D. student from the University of Houston in the field of Computer Science. It is an exciting moment when you start…

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We recently commissioned a survey of 2, 000 consumers, examining what ‘real-time’ means to end-users and the potential implications of making customers wait. We dug into the various industries where…

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We added support for scalar user-defined functions in our recent release, Volt Active Data V7.6. With this feature, users can write their own SQL functions in Java and load them…

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As summer comes to a close, we’ve posted another monthly Volt Active Data release, now available for download. Volt Active Data v7.7 introduces several features that improve usability and performance….

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Introduction NoSQL databases, such as Apache Cassandra, are often used in operational applications. However, a new breed of databases, such as Volt Active Data, are revolutionizing the fast data landscape….

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Data is often repeated as the lifeblood of modern business. Companies use data to drive decisions and strategies, as well as run applications based off those decisions (which in turn…

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Digital has become the new mantra for success and every Enterprise across the globe wants to ‘go digital’. As more companies embark on their digital transformation journey, they often need…

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The financial industry is undergoing a fast data revolution and we hear from a lot of our clients about why fast data is becoming an increasingly critical requirement in their…

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Telco networks have always generated fast data at line speed. In telco use cases like policy management, decisions are already made on that data in near real-time. In many other…

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Several days ago, I saw a tweet fly by in my stream. The creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, was recommending Golang for any new server-side projects. While Node.js is still…

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Last Monday on August 28th, a number of the Volt Active Data staff attended the Kafka Summit in San Francisco. This one-day event brought in over 700 attendees from the…

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We’re ending the summer 2017 season with a bang – our new release, Volt Active Data v7.6, totally eclipses all other Volt Active Data releases with the introduction User Defined…

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For part 1 of the series, click here. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a fundamental shift from the current economy, leading some to even claim that IoT will…

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Editor’s note: This blog post first appeared on the InfoWorld blog on August 28th The term “real-time” is thrown around a lot these days, but it’s a buzzword that is…

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Credit card fraud is ever-growing and ever-present. According to the 2016 LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud study, the total cost per dollar of fraud losses has reached $2.40. The total…

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Every summer, we give undergraduate and graduate students a chance to learn about working in a fast-paced startup. This year, we were joined by a number of interns who quickly…

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Financial services institutions are faced with a number of high-pressure demands, whether it be from regulators, investors, customers, and internal business users. These demands require that firms create, monitor, and…

Enterprise IoT

Volt Active Data and Beecham Research teamed up to host a webinar in July called, “Surviving IoT: How Telcos Can Thrive in the Next Industrial Revolution”. We had such excellent…

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Recently, our founding Engineer, John Hugg, spoke at Berlin Buzzwords. This vlog contains the video of his presentation there. What’s Covered in this Video? There has been so much noise…

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Volt Active Data V7.5 is now available, with a fine set of features sure to excite our customers, including: Kafka updates (most requested by customers) Kafka 0.10.2 an upgrade from…

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Upwards of 50% of Volt Active Data customers deploy in public and private clouds, so we get queries regularly on how to set up interfaces for cloud instances. One question…

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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in DBTA.  More companies are realizing that leveraging real-time data is the key to success in modern applications, which means that more people are…

Enterprise IoT

Companies and business leaders are increasingly realizing the advantages and opportunities provided by implementing real-time decision making and action on streams of data. Joe McKendrick, writing for the DBTA thought…

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It seems like everyone is moving to the cloud lately, regardless of industry. Telcos are the process of doing the same – but there’s a lot of catching up to…

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Volt Active Data includes interfaces – both import and export – to many other applications and systems in the broader ecosystem of big and fast data, including the cloud. A…

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Recently we held our Q2 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. Volt Active Data engineering is a Agile scrum organization,…

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Volt Active Data was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine streaming, or “fast data”, tightly with big data.We call these…

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Let’s talk about The Internet of Things, or “IoT”. You cannot turn a page lately in the technology press and not see those three letters. The buzz is that IoT…

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Exciting news – this Volt Active Data v7.4 release has the first batch of contributions by our summer interns! Here are some of the improvements and features in the release:…

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Pretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows publishers to field ad bids in the header of a…

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Many Volt Active Data customers are creating externally-facing applications which face the potential of being hacked, with the applications and/or data being used in some fraudulent manner that can cost…

Enterprise IoT

Telco/5G

One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear…

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Fraud has been around since time immemorial. While companies and organizations have focused on how to detect and prevent fraud, new technologies and new applications mean that the issue of…

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Historically, telco analytics have been limited and difficult. Telco networks and the systems that support those networks are some of the most advanced technology solutions in existence. The performance requirements…

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Volt Active Data has been providing value to telco communications solution providers since our beginnings back in 2009. Back then, we were designed into OSS/BSS software offered by companies like…

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In 2016, we partnered with Research Now to conduct a survey on a subject we take very seriously: data consistency. The results were shocking. While there was wide agreement on…

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Many financial services organizations are well on their way to implementing a data management and reporting strategy to comply with the upcoming MiFID II requirements. For our procrastinator friends out…

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Large financial institutions deal with many types of fraud, predominantly transaction fraud. Transaction fraud occurs when a fraudster steals credentials, such as a credit card number, and charges those accounts…

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The lion’s share of Volt Active Data deployments are enterprise-size, comprising a dozen or more nodes, processing over 1 billion transactions a day. But often we hear from start-ups, small-medium…

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If data is a business’s biggest asset, than mobile and telco providers are poised for unprecedented growth – so long as they have the ability to analyze and act on…

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One of the reasons I love working for a leading-edge database company is that I get to talk to and work with many different kinds of companies. Data is everywhere,…

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What I’ve learned from working in the software industry is that the word “personalization” can mean many different things to many different people. My intent in this blog series is…

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We recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some Volt Active Data production servers to create a disaster recovery site. The…

Enterprise IoT

Telcos run some of the most demanding data management environments in the business world. There’s the network environment: Telco network efficiency guidelines have extreme requirements for the availability and performance…

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There are three ways to interact with the database in client / server computing: Play “Twenty Questions” with SQL statements; Move all the data to the client, and then back…

Cloud/Edge

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Volt Active Data is now available ‘by the hour’ on Amazon EC2. To get best results and optimal TCO from your Volt Active Data cloud instances, users need to understand…

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Some time ago, a mentor of mine advised me to listen more than I spoke. He told me the secrets to building a successful company:  listen to your customers to…

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This blog was originally posted on the ChartiO Blog on 3/14/17. It’s never been more important to know what’s happening now Pretty much every technological development we are seeing –…

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Join Ethan Zhang at #StrataHadoop. He’ll be speaking on March 15, at 1:50pm in 230 B, on “Continuous queries over high-velocity event streams using in-memory database”. But first, hear what he’s excited…

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…of Analyst Reports Analyst reports — with each new year and the corresponding publication of new analyst reports, I’m reminded of the critical importance…

Enterprise IoT

The Volt Active Data engineering team spent the past 12 months improving and extending our innovative database offering across all facets of the product. Now that we’ve turned the calendar…

Telco/5G

I am Bill White and I am part of the team at Volt Active Data dedicated to implementing the SQL language. Today I’d like to share with you a new…

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Real-time connectivity will stop being an optional way to incrementally improve efficiency and instead become a baseline requirement without which things simply won’t work. Over the next decade the ratio…

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Written from the ground up to run in-memory, Volt Active Data is the solution for fast data applications that need to transact in real-time. By occupying this unique place in the…

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Fast Data — some of our customers have told us that managing fast data is like drinking from a fire hose. I find it interesting how often water is used…

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Stream views are a recent addition to Volt Active Data. With stream views, we get the utility of the aggregations – real-time analytics – without the memory footprint of their…

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How do you modernize the infrastructure of an industry as essential to our world as telecommunications? You could hedge your bets and start very carefully and slowly, which seems prudent….

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We did a survey last year to see how enterprises viewed the need for “real time”(see https://dev.voltactivedata.com/blog/worlds-apart-real-time-data-disconnect). Since we are leaders in the fast data space, we wanted to try…

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In the newest version of Volt Active Data, we’ve added a new client API to make calling a single-partition procedure at every partition easier. This blog post explains what it…

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Billions and billions of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed Volt Active Data applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation puts the number north of 50 billion a day. The…

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We get a lot of questions about what Volt Active Data is, what it does well, and how it can help enterprises solve a range of data management challenges. This…

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I work on the Volt Active Data Scrum team tasked to create interfaces – both import and export – to many other applications and systems in the broader ecosystem of…

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We looked at the basic differences between NoSQL and NewSQL in a recent post. Now let’s break the differences down specifically by looking at what developers really care about: Which…

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NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. We’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if…

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I got some fairly harsh feedback for my last post, “Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency.” It’s clear a lot of people were thrown by the assertion: There is no…

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Working at Volt Active Data is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern during the summer of 2016. I was part of the…

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My name is Yuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master’s student, and I spent this summer as an intern in Volt Active Data. It’s been a valuable experience for me….

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I’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is both feature and performance comparable to the Volt Active Data…

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I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the West Coast and Central US. Most recently before joining Volt…

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Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me…

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Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for Volt Active Data. We promise strong serializability in a distributed…

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There’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Defines the World Or, it Reacts to the World If your database ‘Defines…

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Innovation in the telecommunications industry has been led primarily by hardware vendors, offering differentiating capabilities to carriers. This has created an environment of vendor lock-in and staggered progress due to…

Enterprise IoT

This post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region. If you follow Gartner, Forrester and other industry analysts, you’re probably a reader of…

Enterprise IoT

This blog was adapted from a post that first appeared on LinkedIn. There’s an interesting article in The Economist on consumer IOT. Here’s an interesting excerpt: Providers have focused on the home,…

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Volt Active Data was a sponsor of the recent In-Memory Computing Summit in San Francisco. I always enjoy going back to San Francisco. I stayed at a cool flat on…

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Ryan Betts is one of Volt Active Data’s founding developers, and is currently our CTO. He’s been designing and building distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure software for almost 20 years….

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Check out or documentation site to learn more about Volt Active Data Cross Data Center Replication. In section 11.3, you’ll learn step-by-step instructions for setting up and running cross datacenter…

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We’ve added a new feature in Volt Active Data v6.6: support for joins in materialized views. We’re very pleased to share this update with you. Read on for use cases…

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Fast Data has changed the way business value is created and captured, opening up a new era of competition and reshaping industries. But evaluating business and technology options for data…

Enterprise IoT

This post was contributed by Prateek Gera, Founder and Chief Product Officer of Volt Active Data partner company Teevr Data.  From our experience working with many customers and partners, Enterprise…

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I recently gave a talk at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose on the benefits of integration of processing and state and transactions when solving stream processing problems….

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I changed jobs and companies a very fast 90 days ago, moving from a huge (I like to say that like Bernie Sanders says it, starting with a “Y” –…

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How many of us dreamed of having a superpower growing up? Be honest. I know for me it was flying. I bet everyone has a superpower they’d like to have….

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The Internet of Things (IOT) is rapidly expanding the number of streaming applications as people sensor tag an increasing number of objects of significance. This adds to the historical streaming…

Enterprise IoT

Today is Internet of Things (IoT) Day, a day that marks a significant change in how we work, how we control our homes, how we drive, how most everything is…

Enterprise IoT

More than three billion people globally access the Internet via smartphones and other devices such as watches and fitness trackers. This number pales in comparison to the total number of…

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It’s a land grab out there with new companies coming to market every day with cool new applications and services. These companies include consumer product and service innovators such as…

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IoT data management platforms must manage both data in motion (fast data) and data at rest (big data). As things generate information, the data needs to processed by applications. Those…

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Jeremy Winters We thank Jeremy Winters of Volt Active Data partner Full360 for this guest post, which first appeared on Full360’s Elastic Ninja blog. It is published here in its…

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2015 was a big year for Volt Active Data. Our product improved as we added exciting features and invested in making the product more robust. Our team has grown, as…

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Choosing a database is a complex affair. Is performance the most important factor in the decision? Is the selection constrained by incumbent infrastructure and applications? Or are you working on…

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The overwhelming availability of fast data, the datafication of humanity, is igniting a new era of innovation and reshaping industries. Volumes of data are pouring into enterprises, drowning them in…

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In my previous post, I described four applications (three implemented, one an example) that require, or at least strongly benefit from, strong ACID transactions. With that out of the way,…

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MaxCDN is a content delivery network (CDN) provider that emphasizes reducing the latency and increasing the reliability of its rich-content delivery. It provides CDN services to digital advertisers, ad networks,…

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There’s a lot of discussion about the value of consistency and ACID transactions in data management. I thought it would be useful to describe three fully implemented enterprise-class applications, and…

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Jason Stamper, lead analyst at 451 Research, reported today on Volt Active Data’s newest software release, v6.0. As Stamper points out, v6.0 builds on the foundation of Volt Active Data’s…

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I recently met with a bunch of Volt Active Data customers. These are companies in the business of data and developing the next generation of applications – they are at…

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As part of our 6.0 release, we’ve added new data types and functions that let you work with geospatial data in your applications. If you care about where things are…

Real-Time Use Cases

Volt Active Data is already the go-to product for developing fast data applications because of its unparalleled performance, availability, and durability. v6.0 builds on that foundation by extending existing capabilities…

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Processing big data effectively often requires multiple database engines, each specialized to a purpose. Databases that are very good at event-oriented real-time processing are likely not good at batch analytics…

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Openet, a leading independent supplier of real-time business support systems (BSS), ensures that more than 600 million mobile telecommunications users around the world enjoy the best network and data experience…

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In the Volt Active Data ebook, “Fast Data: Smart and at Scale,” Ryan Betts and I outline what we have found, through years of work and collective experience, to be…

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Introduction Last year we published YCSB benchmarks that compared IBM SoftLayer with Amazon Web Services. This generated a lot of interest from lots of different folks in the cloud community….

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When you evaluate a database to use in your application stack, you usually look at the features, the performance, the price, and the fit. You take for granted that the…

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Continuous integration (CI) has become a fundamental process in many software-based companies in recent years. Fortunately, frameworks such as Jenkins do most of the heavy lifting and make it flexible…

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My name is Yiqun Zhang and I worked as a software engineering intern on the SQL core team at Volt Active Data during the summer. The experience of working with…

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One of the key tasks during initialization of a Volt Active Data cluster is determining cluster topology. The topology includes placement of the partition masters and replicas on physical Volt…

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A couple of weeks ago, an interesting issue came up in the field. The symptom was that the resident set size (RSS) of the Volt Active Data process would keep…

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Trying to choose a database to solve a problem (or a whole set of them)? Here’s a quick rundown of the advantages – and disadvantages – of NoSQL versus NewSQL….

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The sale and subsequent closure of FoundationDB cut short something of a grand experiment. FoundationDB, conceived as a Key-Value store, had decided to add flexibility in the form of programming…

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Working on distributed systems is fun, but not easy! As a software engineer at Volt Active Data, a big chunk of my time is spent testing software on a cluster…

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The Lambda Architecture defines a robust framework for ingesting streams of fast data while providing efficient real-time and historical analytics. In Lambda, immutable data flows in one direction: into the…

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My name is Yetian Xia. I worked as a software engineering intern at Volt Active Data during the summer, working with the core team. My favorite project was optimizing the…

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ndexes provide a classic “space for speed” trade-off. They add to the persistent memory footprint of your application data but they make query filtering significantly faster. They also represent a…

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The development team at Volt Active Data recently ran Volt Active Data v4.2 against the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB), an industry-standard performance benchmark for cloud databases. We ran our…

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Deleting records is often an afterthought when you’re first building a proof of concept with Volt Active Data, but it is an important function that should be given some thought…

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In a previous life I had a requirement that a web application scanned the expiration date of purchased content and sent one of three emails letting the user know that…

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There has been another round of online conversations about the CAP theorem as the internet community continues to discuss its implications on networked databases. Coda Hale recently wrote a well…