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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
The current discourse around AI is fixated on the "Brain" – Large Language Models (LLMs) and the generative capabilities of agents. But for the enterprise, a brain without a nervous…
In 2025, real-time decisioning shifted from a technical ambition to a business requirement. As streaming, AI, and edge computing matured, organizations were forced to rethink how quickly, consistently, and safely…
In mid-October 2025, a single race condition in the DNS automation layer behind Amazon DynamoDB triggered one of the largest cloud outages in recent memory. Tens of thousands of businesses…
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What Do Telcos Look for in a Fast Data Solution?
Telcos run some of the most demanding data management environments in the business world. There’s the network environment: Telco network…
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Shocking Fact: Stored Procedures make OLTP faster. Seriously!
There are three ways to interact with the database in client / server computing: Of these, using stored procedures is…
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Volt Active Data CEO Vision: Listen first to build a legacy
Some time ago, a mentor of mine advised me to listen more than I spoke. He told me the secrets…
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Gain instant insight by using Volt Active Data and ChartIO on your real-time data streams
This blog was originally posted on the ChartiO Blog on 3/14/17. It’s never been more important to know what’s happening…
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Preparing For #StrataHadoop Conference 2017
Join Ethan Zhang at #StrataHadoop. He’ll be speaking on March 15, at 1:50pm in 230 B, on “Continuous queries over high-velocity event…
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The Forrester Wave™: In-Memory Databases, 2017 Q1 – Caveat Lector
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…of Analyst Reports Analyst reports — with each new year and the corresponding publication…
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Introducing Volt Active Data v7.0
The Volt Active Data engineering team spent the past 12 months improving and extending our innovative database offering across all…
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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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If your system cannot tolerate delayed enforcement, inconsistent behavior, or reconciliation after the fact, let’s start a conversation about whether a dedicated decisioning layer makes sense for your architecture.