I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the West Coast and Central US. Most recently before joining Volt Active Data, I was part of the professional services group at one of the three major Hadoop vendors where I was involved in both pre-sales […]
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of reasoning that I don’t think you can fault: The purpose of any database […]
Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for Volt Active Data. We promise strong serializability in a distributed database, a stronger promise than almost any other system, and we’ve been working with Kingsbury to validate that promise. What is Jepsen Testing? From http://jepsen.io: […]
There’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Defines the World Or, it Reacts to the World If your database ‘Defines the World’ it means that if it doesn’t happen in the database, it doesn’t happen at all. Amazon.com is a classic example of this – […]
Innovation in the telecommunications industry has been led primarily by hardware vendors, offering differentiating capabilities to carriers. This has created an environment of vendor lock-in and staggered progress due to lack of agility. A side effect of this is equipment and infrastructure obsolescence at a rate that is not desirable for carriers. At the same […]
This post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region. If you follow Gartner, Forrester and other industry analysts, you’re probably a reader of Gartner’s ‘Hype Cycles’ and Forrester’s ‘Waves’. According to Gartner, IoT is at the top of the Hype Cycle, and is forecast to deliver economic value […]
Volt Active Data was a sponsor of the recent In-Memory Computing Summit in San Francisco. I always enjoy going back to San Francisco. I stayed at a cool flat on Nob Hill and the show was enjoyable and productive – we had some great conversations with attendees and even other sponsors there. The frustration came […]
Ryan Betts is one of Volt Active Data’s founding developers, and is currently our CTO. He’s been designing and building distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure software for almost 20 years. Chances are, if you’ve used the Internet, some of your ones and zeros passed through a slice of code he wrote or tested. We’re pleased […]
Check out or documentation site to learn more about Volt Active Data Cross Data Center Replication. In section 11.3, you’ll learn step-by-step instructions for setting up and running cross datacenter replication (XDCR) between two or more Volt Active Data clusters. The sections describe how to: Design your schema and identify the DR tables Configure the […]
