Tag: SQL vs. NoSQL

Why Volt is the OLTP Data Platform of Choice

Why Volt is the OLTP Data Platform of Choice

October 25, 2023
By: Briana Matejcik
A lot of companies use Volt Active Data for classic Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), but why would you pick Volt as an OLTP data platform and how would a Volt-based OLTP data platform differ from other data platforms in its handling of OLTP? First — let’s define our terms.  What is a Transaction? OLTP data [...]

The Changing Landscape of Databases in Financial Services

November 29, 2017
By: Volt Active Data Blog Staff

For decades, relational databases was the de-facto choice for financial service companies, until the 2000s where systems started to face challenges with scalability and availability as the amount of data being processed and consumed shaped how companies conducted their business. NoSQL databases emerged as a reaction to these challenges and while they certainly helped address […]

FoundationDB’s Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store is Not Enough

April 01, 2015
By: Adrian Scholes

The sale and subsequent closure of FoundationDB cut short something of a grand experiment. FoundationDB, conceived as a Key-Value store, had decided to add flexibility in the form of programming and query-model “Layers” on top of its core KV store. First up was SQL, software that ran on top of core FoundationDB and provided SQL […]

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