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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…
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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…