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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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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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The five most frequent questions about Volt Active Data
We get a lot of questions about what Volt Active Data is, what it does well, and how it can…
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Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon Kinesis streams
I work on the Volt Active Data Scrum team tasked to create interfaces – both import and export – to…
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Four Use Cases Where NoSQL Databases Fall Short
We looked at the basic differences between NoSQL and NewSQL in a recent post. Now let’s break the differences down…
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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…
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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…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Working at Volt Active Data is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern…
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Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s story
My name is Yuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master’s student, and I spent this summer as an intern in…
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