Blogs
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ACID: How to screw it up!
In my previous post, I described four applications (three implemented, one an example) that require, or at least strongly benefit…
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Managing Fast Data in a Content Delivery Network
MaxCDN is a content delivery network (CDN) provider that emphasizes reducing the latency and increasing the reliability of its rich-content…
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Apps that need ACID
There’s a lot of discussion about the value of consistency and ACID transactions in data management. I thought it would…
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451 Research Report “Points & Polygons: Volt Active Data adds Geospatial Support with v6.0”
Jason Stamper, lead analyst at 451 Research, reported today on Volt Active Data’s newest software release, v6.0. As Stamper points…
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Why the Innovators of Data-Intensive Apps Use the Cloud
I recently met with a bunch of Volt Active Data customers. These are companies in the business of data and…
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Introducing Geospatial Capabilities in Volt Active Data v6.0
As part of our 6.0 release, we’ve added new data types and functions that let you work with geospatial data…
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Introducing Volt Active Data v6.0
Volt Active Data is already the go-to product for developing fast data applications because of its unparalleled performance, availability, and…
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Fast Data Recipe: Design Data Pipelines
Processing big data effectively often requires multiple database engines, each specialized to a purpose. Databases that are very good at…
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Openet uses fast data to drive down TCO and support mobile data in real-time
Openet, a leading independent supplier of real-time business support systems (BSS), ensures that more than 600 million mobile telecommunications users…
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Fast Data Recipe: Integrate Streaming Aggregations and Transactions
In the Volt Active Data ebook, “Fast Data: Smart and at Scale,” Ryan Betts and I outline what we have…
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Comparing Cloud Performance With YCSB
Introduction Last year we published YCSB benchmarks that compared IBM SoftLayer with Amazon Web Services. This generated a lot of…
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How we Test at Volt Active Data
When you evaluate a database to use in your application stack, you usually look at the features, the performance, the…