Category: Volt Capabilities
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The five most frequent questions about Volt Active Data
Read more: The five most frequent questions about Volt Active DataWe get a lot of questions about what Volt Active Data is, what it does well, and how it can help enterprises solve a range of data management challenges. This post will address a few of those questions. We’ll have more posts like…
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Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon Kinesis streams
Read more: Connecting Volt Active Data to Amazon Kinesis streamsI work on the Volt Active Data Scrum team tasked to create interfaces – both import and export – to many other applications and systems in the broader ecosystem of big and fast data. It’s an always-interesting place to be since we’re…
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Four Use Cases Where NoSQL Databases Fall Short
Read more: Four Use Cases Where NoSQL Databases Fall ShortWe looked at the basic differences between NoSQL and NewSQL in a recent post. Now let’s break the differences down specifically by looking at what developers really care about: Don’t get us wrong – NoSQL databases are great for lots of workloads…
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?
Read more: NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. We’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if you’re trying to decide which solution to adopt in your organization. NoSQL…
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Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?
Read more: Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?I got some fairly harsh feedback for my last post, “Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency.” It’s clear a lot of people were thrown by the assertion: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’.…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Read more: An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmarkWorking at Volt Active Data is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern during the summer of 2016. I was part of the Data Replication (DR) team, which builds cross data-center replication and database backup…
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Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s story
Read more: Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s storyMy name is Yuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master’s student, and I spent this summer as an intern in Volt Active Data. It’s been a valuable experience for me. I work on the ecosystem team, and my work mainly focuses on…
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New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
Read more: New Go language driver available for Volt Active DataI’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is both feature and performance comparable to the Volt Active Data Java client. Support of golang Standard Library The golang standard library provides…
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Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
Read more: Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the West Coast and Central US. Most recently before joining Volt Active Data, I was part of the professional services group at one…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Read more: Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of…
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Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Read more: Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen TestingVolt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for Volt Active Data. We promise strong serializability in a distributed database, a stronger promise than almost any other system, and we’ve been…
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The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the World
Read more: The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the WorldThere’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Or, it If your database ‘Defines the World’ it means that if it doesn’t happen in the database, it doesn’t happen at all. Amazon.com is…
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