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Four Use Cases Where NoSQL Databases Fall Short
We looked at the basic differences between NoSQL and NewSQL in a recent post. Now let’s break the differences down…
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NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What’s the difference?
NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. We’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between…
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Read Repair – a solution to eventual consistency?
I got some fairly harsh feedback for my last post, “Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency.” It’s clear a lot…
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An intern’s experience at Volt Active Data: Partial snapshots, YCSB benchmark
Working at Volt Active Data is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern…
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Optimizing client APIs – an intern’s story
My name is Yuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master’s student, and I spent this summer as an intern in…
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New Go language driver available for Volt Active Data
I’m happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance Volt Active Data client for the go language. The golang client is…
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Fast Data vs. Big Data – Is it the classic case of David vs. Goliath?
I recently joined Volt Active Data as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the…
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Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency”
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate…
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Volt Active Data 6.4 Passes Official Jepsen Testing
Volt Active Data hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for…
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The two types of databases: Defines the World, or Reacts to the World
There’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either: Or, it If…
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The role of a fast database in the NFV revolution
Innovation in the telecommunications industry has been led primarily by hardware vendors, offering differentiating capabilities to carriers. This has created…
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From the Internet of People to the IoT and the Analytics of Things – industry examples
This post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region. If you follow Gartner,…