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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
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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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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Stream views — the untold story
Stream views are a recent addition to Volt Active Data. With stream views, we get the utility of the aggregations…
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Five Telco Apps where a Fast NewSQL Database Brings Competitive Advantage
How do you modernize the infrastructure of an industry as essential to our world as telecommunications? You could hedge your…
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Lack of consistency is the hobgoblin of data management (and other survey results)
We did a survey last year to see how enterprises viewed the need for “real time”(see https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/worlds-apart-real-time-data-disconnect). Since we are…
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All-Partition Procedures: New Client APIs in Volt Active Data 6.7
In the newest version of Volt Active Data, we’ve added a new client API to make calling a single-partition procedure…
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Billions and billions (of transactions)
Billions and billions of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed Volt Active Data applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation…
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