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The sale and subsequent closure of FoundationDB cut short something of a grand experiment. FoundationDB, conceived as a Key-Value store,…
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Working on distributed systems is fun, but not easy! As a software engineer at Volt Active Data, a big chunk…
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The Lambda Architecture defines a robust framework for ingesting streams of fast data while providing efficient real-time and historical analytics.…
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My name is Yetian Xia. I worked as a software engineering intern at Volt Active Data during the summer, working…
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ndexes provide a classic “space for speed” trade-off. They add to the persistent memory footprint of your application data but…
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The development team at Volt Active Data recently ran Volt Active Data v4.2 against the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB),…
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Deleting records is often an afterthought when you’re first building a proof of concept with Volt Active Data, but it…
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In a previous life I had a requirement that a web application scanned the expiration date of purchased content and…
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There has been another round of online conversations about the CAP theorem as the internet community continues to discuss its…