5 Key Questions from our webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”
At our recent webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”, we received a number of questions from attendees about Volt Active Data and how it works. From integrating Volt Active Data with Kafka to running Volt Active Data in a container, here’s a recap on the FAQs asked during the webinar. For those who […]
The 3 Horsemen of the Legacy System Apocalypse
The world is speeding up; people expect customized information and services immediately. In these tumultuous times, some companies are clinging to their legacy data infrastructure as a security blanket. However, traditional RDBMSes are just not able to provide the massive scales, edge distribution, and virtual or cloud deployments that are necessary for modern applications. In […]
Volt Active Data Bonded Network Compatibility
In this post we describe Volt Active Data’s high availability architecture and how it interacts with bonded networks. Together they offer protection and continuity against network failovers. How do we know? Because we tested it and describe the tests we ran to verify compatibility with various bonded network modes. What Is a Bonded Network? Bonded […]
Key Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale
Modern applications have two primary needs: performance and ease of operations, both at scale. Performance The performance consists of two aspects: throughput and latency. Both are driven by applications becoming machine-driven i.e. API-driven. Humans will wait much longer than an API will since APIs have strict latency expectations due to timeouts. When you take a […]
Questions and Answers about Modern Database Architecture
Volt Active Data and DBTA teamed up to host a webinar in October titled “Architectural Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale”. We had a number of excellent questions during that session, which are reproduced below. For those who missed the webinar, you may view it here in its entirety. Editor’s Note Unless […]
3 Must-haves of an In-memory Database for Modern Applications
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in DBTA. More companies are realizing that leveraging real-time data is the key to success in modern applications, which means that more people are searching for the right in-memory database technology. However, with many options, comparing in-memory databases for your use case can be challenging. Regardless of use case and […]
Beyond Analytics to Real-time Decisions
Companies and business leaders are increasingly realizing the advantages and opportunities provided by implementing real-time decision making and action on streams of data. Joe McKendrick, writing for the DBTA thought leadership series, sees the trend as well — and has the evidence to prove it. He notes that a Unisphere/Information Today, Inc. survey “found that […]
Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?
One of the big topics at the OpenStack conference was how to prepare and implement a successful transition to 5G. Unfortunately, this means that the age-old Telco bugbears will rear their ugly heads again, including latency. 5G, as a fundamental requirement, mandates a 1 millisecond latency from the datasource to its destination. Currently, most applications […]
Impressions from the Austin, TX Telco 5G/BCE Show
Volt Active Data has been providing value to telco communications solution providers since our beginnings back in 2009. Back then, we were designed into OSS/BSS software offered by companies like Openet and HP (now HPE) because our database could make the very fast authorization/authentication decisions that were needed while offering the high reliability required by carriers. […]