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Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.
DTW Ignite brought together network operators, vendors, and systems integrators to talk about where telecom infrastructure is heading. This year we showed up differently than in years past. Together with…
FinNext 2026 brought together leaders from banking, fintech, payments, lending, and technology to talk about where the financial services industry is heading. AI, data infrastructure, cloud, and tokenization all got…
I've had some version of the same conversation dozens of times. An operator or platform team has invested heavily in an AI-driven decisioning system (fraud detection, network policy, real-time charging),…
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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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