Tag: sql
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What is Intelligent Manufacturing?
Read more: What is Intelligent Manufacturing?Smart manufacturers are always looking for ways to decrease operating expenses, increase overall efficiency, reduce downtime, and maximize production. To this end, more and more manufacturers are investing in intelligent manufacturing technology that enables them to create highly adaptive, efficient, and responsive…
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The 5 Main Challenges With Monetizing AI and ML Data (and How to Fix Them)
Read more: The 5 Main Challenges With Monetizing AI and ML Data (and How to Fix Them)Monetizing AI/ML data has become a hot topic for enterprises, and rightly so: We appear at or near ‘peak AI’. It’s absolutely everywhere, and we’re even seeing companies like Dell put out expensive TV commercials talking about what they can do with…
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OEMs: The 6 Questions to Ask Your Data Platform Vendors
Read more: OEMs: The 6 Questions to Ask Your Data Platform VendorsOEMs face incredible challenges today. They’re being asked to do more with less as supply chain and operation overrun issues create a legitimate OEM crisis. And yet, more often than not, OEMs don’t consider their underlying tech stack technologies until they are…
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NoSQL Due Diligence, Part 3: the Open Source Debacle
Read more: NoSQL Due Diligence, Part 3: the Open Source DebacleIntroduction The concept of open source has been integral to promoting a generation of NoSQL database platforms, each of which has a VC-funded backer and many of which now have successful IPOs; which has created some interesting dilemmas. But: In order to…
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NoSQL Due Diligence, Part 2: NoSQL Misconceptions
Read more: NoSQL Due Diligence, Part 2: NoSQL MisconceptionsIntroduction NoSQL databases became “en mode” some time around 2012 and sprouted a database revolution that led many enterprises to replace their traditional RDBMS technology with NoSQL-based data platforms. What’s interesting now is how many of these companies are either regretting their…
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Improving SQL Execution – An Intern’s Story
Read more: Improving SQL Execution – An Intern’s StoryMy name is Dinesh Majeti and I am a Ph.D. student from the University of Houston in the field of Computer Science. It is an exciting moment when you start to work in the industry for the first time, especially as a…
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Go Faster!
Read more: Go Faster!Several days ago, I saw a tweet fly by in my stream. The creator of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, was recommending Golang for any new server-side projects. While Node.js is still very popular, the growth in microservices has been driving a more wide-spread…
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Data Consistency – Why You Need an ACID Database in Financial Services
Read more: Data Consistency – Why You Need an ACID Database in Financial ServicesIn 2016, we partnered with Research Now to conduct a survey on a subject we take very seriously: data consistency. The results were shocking. While there was wide agreement on what is defined by “critical data” (financial data), only 58% of people…
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Shocking Fact: Stored Procedures make OLTP faster. Seriously!
Read more: Shocking Fact: Stored Procedures make OLTP faster. Seriously!There are three ways to interact with the database in client / server computing: Of these, using stored procedures is the most efficient and logical choice for high-volume, low-latency on-line transaction processing (OLTP). Unconvinced? I’m not surprised. Stored procedures have a (mostly…
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Billions and billions (of transactions)
Read more: Billions and billions (of transactions)Billions and billions of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed Volt Active Data applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation puts the number north of 50 billion a day. The number is likely much, much higher. These billions of transactions are executed…
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The five most frequent questions about Volt Active Data
Read more: The five most frequent questions about Volt Active DataWe get a lot of questions about what Volt Active Data is, what it does well, and how it can help enterprises solve a range of data management challenges. This post will address a few of those questions. We’ll have more posts like…
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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…