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The five most frequent questions about Volt Active Data
Key TakeawaysVolt Active Data addresses issues of legacy relational databases: inability to achieve drastic performance increase by running in memory…
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Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon Kinesis streams
Key TakeawaysVolt Active Data has released a new integration in v6.6 that allows connection with Amazon (AWS) Kinesis streaming services…
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Four Use Cases Where NoSQL Databases Fall Short
Key TakeawaysNoSQL databases excel in scalability, particularly for handling vast amounts of unstructured data from sources like web searches and…
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?
Key TakeawaysNoSQL is a broad category of database technologies that emerged due to frustrations with the cost and inflexibility of…
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Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?
Key TakeawaysEventual consistency (EC) can lead to data being ‘wrong,’ which can have significant business impacts, especially in scenarios requiring…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Key TakeawaysImproved the partial snapshot feature by addressing issues like handling non-existing tables and ensuring data consistency across multiple snapshots.Enabled…
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Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s story
Key TakeawaysYuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master’s student, interned at Volt Active Data, focusing on optimizing client APIs, deployment,…
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New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
Key TakeawaysA fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the Go language has been introduced, comparable to the Java…
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Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
Key TakeawaysFast data and big data ecosystems are not competing, but mutually beneficial and necessary for businesses.Fast data enables real-time,…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Key TakeawaysEventual consistency is a technique used to make updates to large databases scale, but it means there is a…
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Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Key TakeawaysVolt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury (creator of Jepsen Tests) to validate their promise of strong serializability in their…
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The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the World
Key TakeawaysDatabases either ‘Define the World’ (where actions must occur in the database to be real) or ‘React to the…