Category: Real-Time Use Cases
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How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want This
Read more: How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want ThisCompanies 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 closets and desk drawers. In the world of databases, data management, and…
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The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High Availability
Read more: The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High AvailabilityIn 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 are (relatively) flexible when systems misbehave: they can try a few more…
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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway
Read more: Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital HighwayImagine 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: latency and throughput. Let’s unravel the mystery behind these terms and examine…
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Introducing Volt Active(ISU): Zero-Downtime Upgrades to Improve the Engine While It’s Running
Read more: Introducing Volt Active(ISU): Zero-Downtime Upgrades to Improve the Engine While It’s RunningEnterprise 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 clusters without having to shut anything down. When all the nodes have…
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Got Data Platform TCO Issues? This Raspberry Pi Test May Interest You
Read more: Got Data Platform TCO Issues? This Raspberry Pi Test May Interest YouTotal 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 your applications run at the speed of light, but what’s that worth…
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Why IoT Deployments Require IT-OT Convergence
Read more: Why IoT Deployments Require IT-OT ConvergenceThe 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 — it’s expected to bring in $1.2 trillion in 2023 and $2.2 trillion…
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Why V13.1 Is Our Most Important Release Yet
Read more: Why V13.1 Is Our Most Important Release YetToday 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 review the highlights of what this version adds: And much more. Let’s…
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Why Retailers Need Real-Time Data Processing
Read more: Why Retailers Need Real-Time Data ProcessingThe 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 stacks. Many if not most retailers and ecommerce businesses depend heavily on…
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Top 5 Real-Time Data Processing Trends of 2023
Read more: Top 5 Real-Time Data Processing Trends of 20232023 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 game. As technology continues to evolve, real-time data processing has transformed from something closer…
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Everything You Need to Know About AI Democratization
Read more: Everything You Need to Know About AI DemocratizationOver 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 of tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, AI has rapidly emerged as a transformative…
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New Benchmark: Volt Very Cost-Effective at Scale on Amazon Hardware
Read more: New Benchmark: Volt Very Cost-Effective at Scale on Amazon HardwareVolt 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 against newer Amazon hardware and discovered that: We’ve also made it possible…
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Why Volt is the OLTP Data Platform of Choice
Read more: Why Volt is the OLTP Data Platform of ChoiceA 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 OLTP data platform differ from other data platforms in its handling of OLTP?…