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 […]
Continuous queries on streams in Volt Active Data using materialized views
We’ve added a new feature in Volt Active Data v6.6: support for joins in materialized views. We’re very pleased to share this update with you. Read on for use cases and practical suggestions. Fast data applications rely heavily on DBMSs like Volt Active Data to provide steady support for many continuous and complex queries returning […]
New guides to help you on your Fast Data Journey
Fast Data has changed the way business value is created and captured, opening up a new era of competition and reshaping industries. But evaluating business and technology options for data is complex and rapidly evolving. For example, according to Gartner, through 2018, 90% of deployed data lakes will be useless, as they are overwhelmed with […]
Accelerating Value for the Enterprise IoT
This post was contributed by Prateek Gera, Founder and Chief Product Officer of Volt Active Data partner company Teevr Data. From our experience working with many customers and partners, Enterprise IoT, IIoT, promises to bring a new business paradigm with pervasive, inexpensive and low power sensors measuring, monitoring and analyzing everything on a plant floor, […]
Call Center example: Integrating processing and state to make streaming problems simple to solve
I recently gave a talk at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose on the benefits of integration of processing and state and transactions when solving stream processing problems. The talk described how a system like Volt Active Data makes the following things easier: Correlation and streaming joins Out-of-order message delivery Exactly-once processing semantics […]
My first (fast) 90 days
I changed jobs and companies a very fast 90 days ago, moving from a huge (I like to say that like Bernie Sanders says it, starting with a “Y” – I’m from New York after all) technology company to the much smaller Volt Active Data. In my previous role, I worked on data warehousing. The […]
The Fast Data Superpower
How many of us dreamed of having a superpower growing up? Be honest. I know for me it was flying. I bet everyone has a superpower they’d like to have. At Volt Active Data we have a saying: make fast data work. We’ve put that into practice for all our clients, and they’ve developed some […]
A Classification of Streaming Applications
The Internet of Things (IOT) is rapidly expanding the number of streaming applications as people sensor tag an increasing number of objects of significance. This adds to the historical streaming applications we have observed in financial services, the military, on-line gaming and elsewhere. In this blog post, we classify such streaming applications according to Table […]
IoT Day
Today is Internet of Things (IoT) Day, a day that marks a significant change in how we work, how we control our homes, how we drive, how most everything is made and how most everything else in our lives is changing. All of this change is being driven by the Tsunami of omnipresent data in […]
Before & after: How fast data will enable the IoT
More than three billion people globally access the Internet via smartphones and other devices such as watches and fitness trackers. This number pales in comparison to the total number of connected devices and sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) today. Industry analyst firm Gartner puts this figure at 6.4 billion, and projects growth to […]