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We 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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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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Some time ago, a mentor of mine advised me to listen more than I spoke. He told me the secrets to building a successful company: listen to your customers to understand the true value of what your company offers. Listen to your…
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This blog was originally posted on the ChartiO Blog on 3/14/17. It’s never been more important to know what’s happening now Pretty much every technological development we are seeing – be it IoT, augmented reality or any one of the thousand other…
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Join Ethan Zhang at #StrataHadoop. He’ll be speaking on March 15, at 1:50pm in 230 B, on “Continuous queries over high-velocity event streams using in-memory database“. But first, hear what he’s excited to experience at Strata + Hadoop World Big Data Conference 2017.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…of Analyst Reports Analyst reports — with each new year and the corresponding publication of new analyst reports, I’m reminded of the critical importance of fully understanding what you are reading and of thinking for yourself.…
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Real-time connectivity will stop being an optional way to incrementally improve efficiency and instead become a baseline requirement without which things simply won’t work. Over the next decade the ratio of humans to computers on the internet will change radically. We’re moving…
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Written from the ground up to run in-memory, Volt Active Data is the solution for fast data applications that need to transact in real-time. By occupying this unique place in the database landscape, Volt Active Data solves a problem that’s pervasive across many…
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Fast Data — some of our customers have told us that managing fast data is like drinking from a fire hose. I find it interesting how often water is used when talking about data. Clive Humby, back in 2006, called data the…
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How do you modernize the infrastructure of an industry as essential to our world as telecommunications? You could hedge your bets and start very carefully and slowly, which seems prudent. After all, telecommunications providers have extreme requirements for the availability and performance…
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We did a survey last year to see how enterprises viewed the need for “real time”(see https://www.voltactivedata.com/blog/worlds-apart-real-time-data-disconnect). Since we are leaders in the fast data space, we wanted to try to gauge where companies were on the real-time maturity curve. The results…