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Walking the floors of MWC this year, one thing was immediately clear to me: Agentic AI has officially moved out of the experimental labs and into active production environments. But…
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…
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Improving Initialization — An Intern’s Story
My three-month-long internship at Volt Active Data was meaningful and unforgettable. By working with all the talents in this company,…
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Improving SQL Execution – An Intern’s Story
My name is Dinesh Majeti and I am a Ph.D. student from the University of Houston in the field of…
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Achieving Immediacy: Operating in a Real-Time World
We recently commissioned a survey of 2, 000 consumers, examining what ‘real-time’ means to end-users and the potential implications of…
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Using UDF for Machine Learning
We added support for scalar user-defined functions in our recent release, Volt Active Data V7.6. With this feature, users can…
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Announcing Volt Active Data v7.7
As summer comes to a close, we’ve posted another monthly Volt Active Data release, now available for download. Volt Active…
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Comparing Fast Data Performance: A comparison of Volt Active Data and Cassandra Benchmarks
Introduction NoSQL databases, such as Apache Cassandra, are often used in operational applications. However, a new breed of databases, such…
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What the **** is Translytics / a Translytical Database?
Data is often repeated as the lifeblood of modern business. Companies use data to drive decisions and strategies, as well…
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Announcing Volt Active Data Enterprise Lab Program
Digital has become the new mantra for success and every Enterprise across the globe wants to ‘go digital’. As more…
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5 Fast Data Trends in Financial Services
The financial industry is undergoing a fast data revolution and we hear from a lot of our clients about why…
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How is Fast Data Transforming the Telco Landscape?
Telco networks have always generated fast data at line speed. In telco use cases like policy management, decisions are already…
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Go Faster!
Several days ago, I saw a tweet fly by in my stream. The creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, was recommending…
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Kafka Summit 2017 – Key Takeaways and Commentary
Last Monday on August 28th, a number of the Volt Active Data staff attended the Kafka Summit in San Francisco.…
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