Tag: Benchmarks
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Volt Active Data and YCSB
Read more: Volt Active Data and YCSBYCSB is a well known benchmark that was devised by a group at Yahoo! Research led by Brian F. Cooper. It came about because the proliferation of what the authors call ‘cloud serving systems’, and the need to be able to do…
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Volt Active Data Gets 66K TPS on the “Telecom Application Transaction Processing” Benchmark
Read more: Volt Active Data Gets 66K TPS on the “Telecom Application Transaction Processing” BenchmarkIntroduction The “Telecom Application Transaction Processing” benchmark was devised to model telco system behavior for benchmark purposes. The documentation describes it as follows: The Telecommunication Application Transaction Processing (TATP) benchmark is designed to measure the performance of a relational DBMS/OS/Hardware combination in…
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Benchmarking Volt Active Data on the Cloud
Read more: Benchmarking Volt Active Data on the CloudSince joining Volt Active Data exactly 3 years ago as a Sales Engineer, I have worked with customers from different industries and with different fast data challenges. One of my most important duties here has been to relay the efficacy of Volt…
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Comparing Fast Data Performance: A comparison of Volt Active Data and Cassandra Benchmarks
Read more: Comparing Fast Data Performance: A comparison of Volt Active Data and Cassandra BenchmarksIntroduction NoSQL databases, such as Apache Cassandra, are often used in operational applications. However, a new breed of databases, such as Volt Active Data, are revolutionizing the fast data landscape. Volt Active Data is an in-memory NewSQL transactional database for fast data…
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Gain instant insight by using Volt Active Data and ChartIO on your real-time data streams
Read more: Gain instant insight by using Volt Active Data and ChartIO on your real-time data streamsThis blog was originally posted on the ChartiO Blog on 3/14/17. It’s never been more important to know what’s happening now Pretty much every technological development we are seeing – be it IoT, augmented reality or any one of the thousand other…
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Managing the real-time data explosion? Look out for these 5 gotchas
Read more: Managing the real-time data explosion? Look out for these 5 gotchasReal-time connectivity will stop being an optional way to incrementally improve efficiency and instead become a baseline requirement without which things simply won’t work. Over the next decade the ratio of humans to computers on the internet will change radically. We’re moving…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Read more: An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmarkWorking 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…
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Apps that need ACID
Read more: Apps that need ACIDThere’s a lot of discussion about the value of consistency and ACID transactions in data management. I thought it would be useful to describe three fully implemented enterprise-class applications, and one example application, that need ACID transactions. These descriptions should make an…
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451 Research Report “Points & Polygons: Volt Active Data adds Geospatial Support with v6.0”
Read more: 451 Research Report “Points & Polygons: Volt Active Data adds Geospatial Support with v6.0”Jason Stamper, lead analyst at 451 Research, reported today on Volt Active Data’s newest software release, v6.0. As Stamper points out, v6.0 builds on the foundation of Volt Active Data’s in-memory, massively parallel architecture. In today’s data-intensive world, your business is only…
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Comparing Cloud Performance With YCSB
Read more: Comparing Cloud Performance With YCSBIntroduction Last year we published YCSB benchmarks that compared IBM SoftLayer with Amazon Web Services. This generated a lot of interest from lots of different folks in the cloud community. There was so much interest we decided to do it again with…
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How we Test at Volt Active Data
Read more: How we Test at Volt Active DataWhen you evaluate a database to use in your application stack, you usually look at the features, the performance, the price, and the fit. You take for granted that the data is correct, that the features work as documented, and that the…
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Volt Active Data In-Memory Database Achieves Best-In-Class Results, Running in the Cloud, On the YCSB Benchmark
Read more: Volt Active Data In-Memory Database Achieves Best-In-Class Results, Running in the Cloud, On the YCSB BenchmarkThe development team at Volt Active Data recently ran Volt Active Data v4.2 against the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB), an industry-standard performance benchmark for cloud databases. We ran our test on as realistic a cluster setup as possible: commodity hardware that…