Category: Volt Capabilities
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Volt Active Data Innovation Week: Driving Product Roadmap
Read more: Volt Active Data Innovation Week: Driving Product RoadmapRecently we held our Q1 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. Volt Active Data engineering is a Agile scrum organization, with two week sprints, and product releases every other sprint. Innovation week…
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The Arrival of 5G — Do You Have a Fast Data Strategy?
Read more: The Arrival of 5G — Do You Have a Fast Data Strategy?5G isn’t just an incremental increase in speed and bandwidth, it’s the new face of the network and a key driver of the digital revolution. Until now, the technology was regarded as a buzzword, or something “just around the corner.” But with…
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How to Increase Player Retention and ARPU in a Free-to-Play Market
Read more: How to Increase Player Retention and ARPU in a Free-to-Play Market2017 was a breakout year for mobile gaming. Even though games only accounted for 40% of the total mobile app downloads for 2017, a total of 80% of app spending in 2017 was generated by mobile games. Mobile game spending even out…
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Strategy Q&A from the Humble Cloud Architect
Read more: Strategy Q&A from the Humble Cloud ArchitectRecently, we hosted a webinar entitled “The Humble Cloud Architect: What is Your Database Strategy?” We had a number of excellent questions during that session, including some that we did not have the time to answer during the webinar. These questions are…
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Database Technology in a Blockchain World
Read more: Database Technology in a Blockchain WorldIt’s just about official—blockchain has taken over the world. Or, to be more accurate, the idea of blockchain has taken over the world. In recent months, we’ve seen Long Island Iced Tea Corp. become Long Blockchain Corp. and Kodak revive itself with…
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The Humble Cloud Architect: What is your Cloud Database Strategy?
Read more: The Humble Cloud Architect: What is your Cloud Database Strategy?In 1972, Dr. Edsger Dijkstra wrote “The Humble Programmer,” in which he laid out his ideas about how to best write computer programs. Back in that world, programming was a big problem, particularly because the programmer was constrained by the computing power…
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Is “Translytics” Just Rebranded “OLTP”?
Read more: Is “Translytics” Just Rebranded “OLTP”?Recently Forrester group has started to talk about “translytics” and Translytical Databases – databases that can “Deliver Analytics At The Speed Of Transactions”. Is this more marketing hype? Or is there something to it? A traditional OLTP database handles lots of rapid fire…
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What Makes a Good Translytics Platform?
Read more: What Makes a Good Translytics Platform?Previously, I critiqued the Forrester Wave Translytical Data Platforms Q4 2017 report. At the end, I promised to provide a list of criteria to evaluate translytical databases. In order to create that list, we need to start with a solid definition of…
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Volt Active Data Releases V8
Read more: Volt Active Data Releases V8Volt Active Data is pleased to announce V8. Our engineering team has spent the last year adding features across the product to bring you the fastest database to handle millions of decisions per second, with single-digit millisecond latencies. Volt Active Data’s customers…
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Solving Lambda Architecture’s Fast Layer Problem
Read more: Solving Lambda Architecture’s Fast Layer ProblemGetting up to date answers about recent events and asking the same question about older data is really hard to do using open source. The Lambda Architecture is a somewhat complicated way of doing this kind of mass scale, relatively fast, open…
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The State of Database Technology, Part 1: Scaleability
Read more: The State of Database Technology, Part 1: ScaleabilityEditor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on December 2, 2017.Despite multiple challenger technologies (eg. Object Oriented databases), the relational databases from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft have prevailed supreme for over…
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Oracle vs. NoSQL vs. NewSQL — Comparing Database Technology
Read more: Oracle vs. NoSQL vs. NewSQL — Comparing Database TechnologyThe world has changed massively in the past 20 years. Back in the year 2000, a few million users connected to the web using a 56k modem attached to a PC, and Amazon only sold books. Now billions of people are using…
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