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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
As we move through 2026, three major shifts are converging to fundamentally change how organizations build and operate mission-critical systems. On the surface, they appear distinct. But they share a…
The Problem Every Enterprise Recognizes Every enterprise today faces the same fundamental challenge: critical information lives in silos, and by the time decisions get made, the moment has already passed….
Why Testing Matters in Modern Engineering Modern engineering methodologies emphasize fast feedback loops. In most cases, these loops connect product owners and development teams, with automated tests serving as the…
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Rank and Dense Rank
I am Bill White and I am part of the team at Volt Active Data dedicated to implementing the SQL…
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Managing the real-time data explosion? Look out for these 5 gotchas
Real-time connectivity will stop being an optional way to incrementally improve efficiency and instead become a baseline requirement without which…
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Volt Active Data calling Teradata Listener
Written from the ground up to run in-memory, Volt Active Data is the solution for fast data applications that need…
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Volt Active Data’s new Connector for Kafka — Tapping into the “Data Main” of the Enterprise
Fast Data — some of our customers have told us that managing fast data is like drinking from a fire…
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Stream views — the untold story
Stream views are a recent addition to Volt Active Data. With stream views, we get the utility of the aggregations…
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Five Telco Apps where a Fast NewSQL Database Brings Competitive Advantage
How do you modernize the infrastructure of an industry as essential to our world as telecommunications? You could hedge your…
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Lack of consistency is the hobgoblin of data management (and other survey results)
We did a survey last year to see how enterprises viewed the need for “real time”(see https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/worlds-apart-real-time-data-disconnect). Since we are…
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All-Partition Procedures: New Client APIs in Volt Active Data 6.7
In the newest version of Volt Active Data, we’ve added a new client API to make calling a single-partition procedure…
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Billions and billions (of transactions)
Billions and billions of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed Volt Active Data applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation…
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The five most frequent questions about Volt Active Data
We get a lot of questions about what Volt Active Data is, what it does well, and how it can…
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Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon Kinesis streams
I work on the Volt Active Data Scrum team tasked to create interfaces – both import and export – to…
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Four Use Cases Where NoSQL Databases Fall Short
We looked at the basic differences between NoSQL and NewSQL in a recent post. Now let’s break the differences down…
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