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Fast Data Pipeline Design: Updating Per-Event Decisions by Swapping Tables
Read more: Fast Data Pipeline Design: Updating Per-Event Decisions by Swapping TablesVolt Active Data was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine streaming, or “fast data”, tightly with big data.We call these applications Fast Data Pipelines. First, a quick high-level summary of the fast…
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Volt Active Data v7.4 Released
Read more: Volt Active Data v7.4 ReleasedExciting news – this Volt Active Data v7.4 release has the first batch of contributions by our summer interns! Here are some of the improvements and features in the release: DR/XDCR – in a multi-cluster environment, you can now ask a cluster…
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Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirements
Read more: Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirementsPretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows publishers to field ad bids in the header of a webpage, which is before anything else (including other ad placements) loads. This…
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Got Fraud? 5 Tips to Prevent Fraud in New Applications
Read more: Got Fraud? 5 Tips to Prevent Fraud in New ApplicationsFraud has been around since time immemorial. While companies and organizations have focused on how to detect and prevent fraud, new technologies and new applications mean that the issue of fraud has turned into a billion dollar thorn in the side of…
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Impressions from the Austin, TX Telco 5G/BCE Show
Read more: Impressions from the Austin, TX Telco 5G/BCE ShowVolt Active Data has been providing value to telco communications solution providers since our beginnings back in 2009. Back then, we were designed into OSS/BSS software offered by companies like Openet and HP (now HPE) because our database could make the very…
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Data Consistency – Why You Need an ACID Database in Financial Services
Read more: Data Consistency – Why You Need an ACID Database in Financial ServicesIn 2016, we partnered with Research Now to conduct a survey on a subject we take very seriously: data consistency. The results were shocking. While there was wide agreement on what is defined by “critical data” (financial data), only 58% of people…
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Got fraud? Tune in to our webinar on detecting fraud in Financial Services and AdTech
Read more: Got fraud? Tune in to our webinar on detecting fraud in Financial Services and AdTechLarge financial institutions deal with many types of fraud, predominantly transaction fraud. Transaction fraud occurs when a fraudster steals credentials, such as a credit card number, and charges those accounts illicitly. To protect against this type of fraud, banks must monitor every…
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A New Offering from Volt Active Data – Volt Active Data Pro
Read more: A New Offering from Volt Active Data – Volt Active Data ProThe lion’s share of Volt Active Data deployments are enterprise-size, comprising a dozen or more nodes, processing over 1 billion transactions a day. But often we hear from start-ups, small-medium companies, or independent ISVs who need Volt Active Data speed, high availability…
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Numbers Don’t Lie: Why the Telco Industry Needs to Transform
Read more: Numbers Don’t Lie: Why the Telco Industry Needs to TransformIf data is a business’s biggest asset, than mobile and telco providers are poised for unprecedented growth – so long as they have the ability to analyze and act on data in real-time. Making the most of vast streams of data from…
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What the heck is personalization?
Read more: What the heck is personalization?What I’ve learned from working in the software industry is that the word “personalization” can mean many different things to many different people. My intent in this blog series is to explore the different meanings as they pertain to various industries: Mobile/Utilities,…
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Tech Spotlight: Top customer questions
Read more: Tech Spotlight: Top customer questionsWe recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some Volt Active Data production servers to create a disaster recovery site. The customer had a 5-node cluster with a k-safety factor of 2, which…
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Shocking Fact: Stored Procedures make OLTP faster. Seriously!
Read more: Shocking Fact: Stored Procedures make OLTP faster. Seriously!There are three ways to interact with the database in client / server computing: Of these, using stored procedures is the most efficient and logical choice for high-volume, low-latency on-line transaction processing (OLTP). Unconvinced? I’m not surprised. Stored procedures have a (mostly…
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