IoT data management platforms must manage both data in motion (fast data) and data at rest (big data). As things generate information, the data needs to processed by applications. Those applications must combine patterns, thresholds, plans, metrics, and more from analytics run against collected (big) data with the current state and readings of the things […]
Jeremy Winters We thank Jeremy Winters of Volt Active Data partner Full360 for this guest post, which first appeared on Full360’s Elastic Ninja blog. It is published here in its entirety. About a year ago, a Full360 gaming customer had a requirement to create an analytics data warehouse for in-game events. These events are […]
2015 was a big year for Volt Active Data. Our product improved as we added exciting features and invested in making the product more robust. Our team has grown, as have the number of users, customers and revenue. However, three things stand out that really make 2015 for me. The kinds of customers we are […]
Choosing a database is a complex affair. Is performance the most important factor in the decision? Is the selection constrained by incumbent infrastructure and applications? Or are you working on a new application and feel free to consider the newest, hottest technologies – but then you need to decide which to use? Wading through available […]
The overwhelming availability of fast data, the datafication of humanity, is igniting a new era of innovation and reshaping industries. Volumes of data are pouring into enterprises, drowning them in the details about their customers, their products, and their networks. Market disrupters have figured out how to harness this inflow of data to create business […]
In my previous post, I described four applications (three implemented, one an example) that require, or at least strongly benefit from, strong ACID transactions. With that out of the way, we can now get to the fun bits. Today’s claim: most databases that claim to be 100% ACID compliant fudge definitions, goof up, or deliberately […]
MaxCDN is a content delivery network (CDN) provider that emphasizes reducing the latency and increasing the reliability of its rich-content delivery. It provides CDN services to digital advertisers, ad networks, publishers, hosting providers, gaming companies, and mobile providers. The company’s business challenge was to provide customers with real-time analytics of content delivery in addition to […]
There’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 abstract concept a bit more concrete. “The Last Dollar Problem” Airpush is a […]
Jason Stamper, lead analyst at 451 Research, reported today on Volt Active Data’s newest software release, v6.0. As Stamper points out, v6.0 builds on the foundation of Volt Active Data’s in-memory, massively parallel architecture. In today’s data-intensive world, your business is only as fast as your database. We’re thrilled that 451 Research decided to highlight […]
I recently met with a bunch of Volt Active Data customers. These are companies in the business of data and developing the next generation of applications – they are at the forefront of an economy driven by data and the datafication of just about everything. When I talked with these customers, I was struck by […]
