Tag: fast data
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Questions and Answers about Modern Database Architecture
Read more: Questions and Answers about Modern Database ArchitectureVolt Active Data and DBTA teamed up to host a webinar in October titled “Architectural Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale”. We had a number of excellent questions during that session, which are reproduced below. Editor’s Note Unless otherwise…
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The Open Source Real-Time Question (and Fast Data Answers)
Read more: The Open Source Real-Time Question (and Fast Data Answers)Rising Amounts of Information As we look at total amount of information created world wide, we see an exponentially rising curve. According to the 2017 Internet Trends study, the amount of total information generated in the world today is about 16 zettabytes…
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Comparing Fast Data Performance: A comparison of Volt Active Data and Cassandra Benchmarks
Read more: Comparing Fast Data Performance: A comparison of Volt Active Data and Cassandra BenchmarksIntroduction NoSQL databases, such as Apache Cassandra, are often used in operational applications. However, a new breed of databases, such as Volt Active Data, are revolutionizing the fast data landscape. Volt Active Data is an in-memory NewSQL transactional database for fast data…
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5 Fast Data Trends in Financial Services
Read more: 5 Fast Data Trends in Financial ServicesThe financial industry is undergoing a fast data revolution and we hear from a lot of our clients about why fast data is becoming an increasingly critical requirement in their IT infrastructure. This blog looks at some of the key trends for…
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How is Fast Data Transforming the Telco Landscape?
Read more: How is Fast Data Transforming the Telco Landscape?Telco networks have always generated fast data at line speed. In telco use cases like policy management, decisions are already made on that data in near real-time. In many other cases, network and customer data is backhauled into a data lake and…
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Fast Data in Financial Services: Key Trends to Maintain a Competitive Edge
Read more: Fast Data in Financial Services: Key Trends to Maintain a Competitive EdgeFinancial services institutions are faced with a number of high-pressure demands, whether it be from regulators, investors, customers, and internal business users. These demands require that firms create, monitor, and provide access to vast amounts of data which must be immediately accessible,…
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Fast Data Pipeline Design: Updating Per-Event Decisions by Swapping Tables
Read more: Fast Data Pipeline Design: Updating Per-Event Decisions by Swapping TablesVolt Active Data was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine streaming, or “fast data”, tightly with big data.We call these applications Fast Data Pipelines. First, a quick high-level summary of the fast…
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Who will win in the IoT?
Read more: Who will win in the IoT?Let’s talk about The Internet of Things, or “IoT”. You cannot turn a page lately in the technology press and not see those three letters. The buzz is that IoT is a revolution. IoT is transformative. IoT is unavoidable – all true.…
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Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirements
Read more: Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirementsPretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows publishers to field ad bids in the header of a webpage, which is before anything else (including other ad placements) loads. This…
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Fraud – Five Takeaways from our Analyst Webinar
Read more: Fraud – Five Takeaways from our Analyst WebinarMany Volt Active Data customers are creating externally-facing applications which face the potential of being hacked, with the applications and/or data being used in some fraudulent manner that can cost the businesses considerable time, effort and money. In addition, some of our…
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3 Key Points from our webinar Preparing for a New Programmatic Adtech World with TripleLift
Read more: 3 Key Points from our webinar Preparing for a New Programmatic Adtech World with TripleLiftOne of the reasons I love working for a leading-edge database company is that I get to talk to and work with many different kinds of companies. Data is everywhere, and companies across the spectrum are trying to harness that data to…
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What the heck is personalization?
Read more: What the heck is personalization?What I’ve learned from working in the software industry is that the word “personalization” can mean many different things to many different people. My intent in this blog series is to explore the different meanings as they pertain to various industries: Mobile/Utilities,…