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At the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in March 2026, the conversation kept returning to the same problem: organizations have built serious streaming infrastructure, but they still can't get authoritative…
The transition to 5G has fundamentally altered the performance expectations placed on the BSS layer. To meet the Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) targets of 3GPP standards, network functions like…
Modern telco architectures are built to handle scale. On-line systems respond to transactions in milliseconds. Event-driven pipelines move usage records, alarms, and network signals at massive volume. The tooling is…
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Solving Lambda Architecture’s Fast Layer Problem
Getting up to date answers about recent events and asking the same question about older data is really hard to…
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The State of Database Technology, Part 1: Scaleability
Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on December…
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Oracle vs. NoSQL vs. NewSQL — Comparing Database Technology
The world has changed massively in the past 20 years. Back in the year 2000, a few million users connected…
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NewSQL in Plain English
Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on January 10, 2018.…
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QuickStart Video: Using Volt Active Data With Docker
Docker is a powerful tool that many of our customers and community members use for the development and testing of…
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Database Resolutions for 2018
The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit…
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“Forrester Wave Translytical Data Platforms Q4 2017” Puts a Good Foot Forward But Doesn’t Take Users Far Enough on the Selection Criteria
Forrester recently published a new Wave™ report on Translytical Data Platforms. In it, they define a Translytical Data Platform as:…
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Meltdown and Spectre and Volt Active Data
The internet is ablaze with articles and talk about hardware security flaws found recently in most modern processors, including chips…
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Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017…
…and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone! In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 2
Previously in part one of this blog series, I explained the problems with two methods of database interactions. Traditional JDBC-style interactions…
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NoSQL, RDBMS, and Contention for Shared Data: Part 1
First off: I’m not here to bash NoSQL. NoSQL came into existence for a good reason — your generic legacy…
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8 Tips for Evaluating a Database in 2022
It’s that time of year — the “wrap up/planning” blogs are among us as we look to a new year.…
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