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 during the summer of 2016. I was part of the Data Replication (DR) team, which builds cross data-center replication and database backup and recovery software. I started by making improvements to the partial snapshot feature. […]
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 Volt Active Data. It’s been a valuable experience for me. I work on the ecosystem team, and my work mainly focuses on optimizing client APIs, deployment of Volt Active Data, and troubleshooting. Tasks that relate […]
New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
I’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is both feature and performance comparable to the Volt Active Data Java client. Support of golang Standard Library The golang standard library provides support for SQL database drivers. This support is represented in two of the […]
Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the West Coast and Central US. Most recently before joining Volt Active Data, I was part of the professional services group at one of the three major Hadoop vendors where I was involved in both pre-sales […]
Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of reasoning that I don’t think you can fault: The purpose of any database […]
Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for Volt Active Data. We promise strong serializability in a distributed database, a stronger promise than almost any other system, and we’ve been working with Kingsbury to validate that promise. What is Jepsen Testing? From http://jepsen.io: […]
