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 hose. I find it interesting how often water is used when talking about data. Clive Humby, back in 2006, called data the new “oil”, but I like the water metaphor — water is a natural […]
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 – real-time analytics – without the memory footprint of their source tables. A stream view is a materialized view of data that’s inserted into your stream tables. With Volt Active Data stream views, the aggregations [...]
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 bets and start very carefully and slowly, which seems prudent. After all, telecommunications providers have extreme requirements for the availability and performance of network infrastructure, hardware and software: 6 9s, or 99.9999% availability. That equates […]
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 leaders in the fast data space, we wanted to try to gauge where companies were on the real-time maturity curve. The results were interesting, which motivated us to do another survey – this time […]
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 at every partition easier. This blog post explains what it does, why we did it, and how to use it.
Billions and billions (of transactions)
Billions and billions[1] of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed Volt Active Data applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation puts the number north of 50 billion a day. The number is likely much, much higher. These billions of transactions are executed across a variety of innovative applications, applications not practical, or sometimes even possible, […]
