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Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on January 10, 2018. The world has changed massively in the past 20 years. Back in the year 2000, a few million users connected to the…
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Docker is a powerful tool that many of our customers and community members use for the development and testing of distributed systems. What You’ll Learn in This Video Recently, our Customer Success Manager, Ben Ballard, presented a Quick Start Tutorial on this…
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The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to…
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Forrester recently published a new Wave™ report on Translytical Data Platforms. In it, they define a Translytical Data Platform as: “A unified and integrated data platform that supports multi-workloads such as transactional, operational and analytical simultaneously in real-time, leveraging in-memory capabilities including…
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The internet is ablaze with articles and talk about hardware security flaws found recently in most modern processors, including chips from Intel and AMD – that is, in the processors used by everyone who runs software to provide a service. In other…
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Previously in part one of this blog series, I explained the problems with two methods of database interactions. Traditional JDBC-style interactions mean that locking and latching take up ~30% of compute time. This overhead skyrockets when you try to use a distributed system.…
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First off: I’m not here to bash NoSQL. NoSQL came into existence for a good reason — your generic legacy SQL RDBMS is often slow and expensive when compared to NoSQL alternatives. But much of the discussion I’ve seen about NoSQL, NewSQL,…
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It’s that time of year — the “wrap up/planning” blogs are among us as we look to a new year. With that, Volt Active Data has decided to put together a few tips and recommendations to consider when evaluating database technologies in…
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CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility…
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For decades, relational databases was the de-facto choice for financial service companies, until the 2000s where systems started to face challenges with scalability and availability as the amount of data being processed and consumed shaped how companies conducted their business. NoSQL databases…
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In this post we describe Volt Active Data’s high availability architecture and how it interacts with bonded networks. Together they offer protection and continuity against network failovers. How do we know? Because we tested it and describe the tests we ran to…
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Modern applications have two primary needs: Performance The performance consists of two aspects: throughput and latency. Both are driven by applications becoming machine-driven i.e. API-driven. Humans will wait much longer than an API will since APIs have strict latency expectations due to…