Category: Volt Capabilities
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?
Read more: NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?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 you’re trying to decide which solution to adopt in your organization. NoSQL…
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Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?
Read more: Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?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 such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’.…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Read more: An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmarkWorking 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 Data Replication (DR) team, which builds cross data-center replication and database backup…
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Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s story
Read more: Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s storyMy 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. I work on the ecosystem team, and my work mainly focuses on…
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New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
Read more: New Go language driver available for Volt Active DataI’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 Java client. Support of golang Standard Library The golang standard library provides…
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Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
Read more: Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?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 Active Data, I was part of the professional services group at one…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Read more: Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”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 as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of…
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Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Read more: Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen TestingVolt 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 database, a stronger promise than almost any other system, and we’ve been…
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The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the World
Read more: The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the WorldThere’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Or, it If your database ‘Defines the World’ it means that if it doesn’t happen in the database, it doesn’t happen at all. Amazon.com is…
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The role of a fast database in the NFV revolution
Read more: The role of a fast database in the NFV revolutionInnovation 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 lack of agility. A side effect of this is equipment and infrastructure…
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A Question of Degree: Thoughts from the In-Memory Computing Summit
Read more: A Question of Degree: Thoughts from the In-Memory Computing SummitVolt 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 Nob Hill and the show was enjoyable and productive – we had…
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Introducing our new eBook, Architecting for the Internet of Things
Read more: Introducing our new eBook, Architecting for the Internet of ThingsRyan 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. Chances are, if you’ve used the Internet, some of your ones and…
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