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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…
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Accelerating continuous integration with Docker – an intern’s story
Continuous integration (CI) has become a fundamental process in many software-based companies in recent years. Fortunately, frameworks such as Jenkins…
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An intern’s experience with Volt Active Data Materialized Views
My name is Yiqun Zhang and I worked as a software engineering intern on the SQL core team at Volt…
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Bringing Rack-Aware Topology to Volt Active Data
One of the key tasks during initialization of a Volt Active Data cluster is determining cluster topology. The topology includes…
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Getting around the Transparent Huge Pages trap in Linux
A couple of weeks ago, an interesting issue came up in the field. The symptom was that the resident set…
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Choosing the Right Tool
Trying to choose a database to solve a problem (or a whole set of them)? Here’s a quick rundown of…
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FoundationDB’s Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store is Not Enough
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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How Docker Simplifies Distributed Systems Development at Volt Active Data
Working on distributed systems is fun, but not easy! As a software engineer at Volt Active Data, a big chunk…
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Simplifying the (complex) Lambda Architecture
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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Optimizing Index Performance – A CMU Intern’s Work at Volt Active Data
My name is Yetian Xia. I worked as a software engineering intern at Volt Active Data during the summer, working…
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Best Practices for Index Optimization in Volt Active Data
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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Volt Active Data In-Memory Database Achieves Best-In-Class Results, Running in the Cloud, On the YCSB Benchmark
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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