Test Drive the World’s Leading OLTP Data Platform
Today, we’re proud to introduce the Volt Active Data Developer Edition, which will allow developers and architects to try out the Volt product suite without having to go through the hassle of manually setting up a cluster themselves.
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Who is this for?
Any senior developer or architect looking to evaluate next-gen technology to solve their latency, ACID, scale, total cost of ownership and/or high availability problems. We assume you’re not a ‘software tourist’ and that you have one or more specific goals in mind.
Why is it needed?
Test-driving a distributed processing platform can be complicated. If you’re assessing a high-performance, real-time platform like Volt and you have quantifiable goals or targets, setting up a single instance or using a website-driven ‘virtual login’ might give you some very basic information about the user experience, but is almost useless for seeing if it truly meets your needs. You’re going to need to set up a cluster.
How much time are you willing to spend setting up a cluster with software you’ve never used
before? How long will it take you to get to the point where you can get a hard answer about your requirements?
If you have a need for low latency and mass scale, you might need quite a big cluster, as you need to see both speed and scale demonstrated on the same dataset at the same time. What looked like an afternoon’s work is now days of work.
The Volt Developer Edition helps you solve this problem
Our Developer Edition lets you use Docker Compose to build a representative deployment of Volt, including both our streaming component ‘SP’ and the core real-time processing engine ‘AD’. You can run this deployment wherever you want, as long as you aren’t in production.
The Developer Edition allows you to easily set up a deployment consisting of:
- A three-node Volt AD cluster, with basic high availability.
- A single node of Volt SP to handle incoming streams of data.
- A client node to run a test application.
It also gives you:
- A 100-day Volt license key.
- Access to our developer Slack channel.
Note that while we give you a reference application, there’s nothing to stop you from replacing it with whatever you want to do. We have a number of other applications you can try or extend.
Developer Edition FAQs
1. Does Volt only run on Docker?
Volt runs on any x86_64 Linux bare metal and is also certified on AWS Graviton. We’ve even done a test benchmark of a cluster of Raspberry Pis! Our production deployments are mostly bare metal, public cloud, and Kubernetes.
2. What if I don’t want to use Docker?
Contact us, and we can try and arrange a traditional POC or access to a demo cluster via AWS.
3. What if I need a bigger cluster?
Contact us via the Slack channel. In addition to helping you make your cluster bigger, we also have a lot of benchmark data that may answer your questions.
4. Is Volt open source?
While a lot of the newer NoSQL and NewSQL data platforms were originally open source, over time we’ve seen a steady shift towards hosted offerings or the SSPL, which means they are no longer really open source. Volt has always been proprietary and is sold on an annual subscription basis. Given that a lot of our customers use Volt for mission-critical applications such as connecting phone calls or managing energy meters, an open-source support model never made sense to them.
5. Can I use this if I’m a student?
Yes! But please bear in mind that we have to give almost all of our attention to people who are likely to buy Volt.
6. What about the Volt Community Edition?
The Community Edition is now obsolete and has been removed because we no longer support it. Use the Developer Edition instead.
7. What are the next steps?
Click on the big button below to get started!
