Tag: in-memory database
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What’s an in-memory database?
Read more: What’s an in-memory database?An in-memory database is a modern data management system that stores data in the system’s main memory (most often RAM), as opposed to a traditional database that uses disk/device storage. When you process data in an in-memory database, only the RAM is…
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5 Key Questions from our webinar, “Is Your Data Architecture Ready for Microservices?”
Read more: 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,…
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The 3 Horsemen of the Legacy System Apocalypse
Read more: The 3 Horsemen of the Legacy System ApocalypseThe 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…
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Volt Active Data Bonded Network Compatibility
Read more: Volt Active Data Bonded Network CompatibilityIn 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…
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Key Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale
Read more: Key Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at ScaleModern applications have two primary needs: 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…
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Questions and Answers about Modern Database Architecture
Read more: Questions and Answers about Modern Database ArchitectureVolt 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. Editor’s Note Unless otherwise…
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3 Must-haves of an In-memory Database for Modern Applications
Read more: 3 Must-haves of an In-memory Database for Modern ApplicationsEditor’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…
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Beyond Analytics to Real-time Decisions
Read more: Beyond Analytics to Real-time DecisionsCompanies 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…
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Latency: Will it undermine the most interesting 5G use cases?
Read more: 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…
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Impressions from the Austin, TX Telco 5G/BCE Show
Read more: Impressions from the Austin, TX Telco 5G/BCE ShowVolt 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…
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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…