Join Ethan Zhang at #StrataHadoop. He’ll be speaking on March 15, at 1:50pm in 230 B, on “Continuous queries over high-velocity event streams using in-memory database“. But first, hear what he’s excited to experience at Strata + Hadoop World Big Data Conference 2017.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…of Analyst Reports Analyst reports — with each new year and the corresponding publication of new analyst reports, I’m reminded of the critical importance of fully understanding what you are reading and of thinking for yourself. The new Forrester Wave for In-Memory Databases (Q1 2017) has just been released […]
The Volt Active Data engineering team spent the past 12 months improving and extending our innovative database offering across all facets of the product. Now that we’ve turned the calendar to 2017, we’re ready to introduce you to our newest version of the fastest in-memory SQL operational database, Volt Active Data v7.0. Volt Active Data […]
I am Bill White and I am part of the team at Volt Active Data dedicated to implementing the SQL language. Today I’d like to share with you a new SQL feature we have implemented in Volt Active Data 6.6 and 6.7.
Real-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 from an era where interactions were mostly between individual humans and servers to […]
Written from the ground up to run in-memory, Volt Active Data is the solution for fast data applications that need to transact in real-time. By occupying this unique place in the database landscape, Volt Active Data solves a problem that’s pervasive across many industry verticals where organizations are motivated to put their business insights to operational […]
Fast Data — some of our customers have told us that managing fast data is like drinking from a fire hose. I find it interesting how often water is used when talking about data. Clive Humby, back in 2006, called data the new “oil”, but I like the water metaphor — water is a natural […]
How do you modernize the infrastructure of an industry as essential to our world as telecommunications? You could hedge your bets and start very carefully and slowly, which seems prudent. After all, telecommunications providers have extreme requirements for the availability and performance of network infrastructure, hardware and software: 6 9s, or 99.9999% availability. That equates […]
We did a survey last year to see how enterprises viewed the need for “real time” (see https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/worlds-apart-real-time-data-disconnect). Since we are leaders in the fast data space, we wanted to try to gauge where companies were on the real-time maturity curve. The results were interesting, which motivated us to do another survey – this time […]
