Insights on building, scaling, and enforcing real-time decisions in modern data-driven systems.

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YCSB is a well known benchmark that was devised by a group at Yahoo! Research led by Brian F. Cooper.…
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Introduction The “Telecom Application Transaction Processing” benchmark was devised to model telco system behavior for benchmark purposes. The documentation describes…

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Since joining Volt Active Data exactly 3 years ago as a Sales Engineer, I have worked with customers from different…

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Introduction NoSQL databases, such as Apache Cassandra, are often used in operational applications. However, a new breed of databases, such…
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This blog was originally posted on the ChartiO Blog on 3/14/17. It’s never been more important to know what’s happening…
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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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Working at Volt Active Data is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern…
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There’s a lot of discussion about the value of consistency and ACID transactions in data management. I thought it would…
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Jason Stamper, lead analyst at 451 Research, reported today on Volt Active Data’s newest software release, v6.0. As Stamper points…
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Introduction Last year we published YCSB benchmarks that compared IBM SoftLayer with Amazon Web Services. This generated a lot of…
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When you evaluate a database to use in your application stack, you usually look at the features, the performance, the…
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The development team at Volt Active Data recently ran Volt Active Data v4.2 against the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB),…
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