3 common real-time application patterns that require a real-time decision Editor's note: This blog post first appeared on the InfoWorld blog on September 29, 2017.At first glance, building a real-time application may sound like a daunting proposition, one that involves technical challenges as well as a...
Millennials are at the forefront of influencing change across multiple industries. From Applebee’s to Harley’s, real-estate to football, millennials are changing how the economy works. Following basic economic principles, if you don’t meet the demands of this generation, your industry could lag behind. Of these...
My three-month-long internship at VoltDB was meaningful and unforgettable. By working with all the talents in this company, I’ve learned countless coding techniques, which deepened my knowledge of software engineering, and sharpened my communication skills.My main work at VoltDB was to help improve different data...
My name is Dinesh Majeti and I am a Ph.D. student from the University of Houston in the field of Computer Science. It is an exciting moment when you start to work in the industry for the first time, especially as a graduate student who...
We recently commissioned a survey of 2, 000 consumers, examining what ‘real-time’ means to end-users and the potential implications of making customers wait. We dug into the various industries where real-time experiences are crucially important: gaming, advertising, telecommunications and banking. And while it was no...
We added support for scalar user-defined functions in our recent release, VoltDB V7.6. With this feature, users can write their own SQL functions in Java and load them into VoltDB. Those functions, once loaded, can be used in all kinds of SQL queries just like...
As summer comes to a close, we’ve posted another monthly VoltDB release, now available for download. VoltDB v7.7 introduces several features that improve usability and performance. The release adds:the ability to write pure SQL stored procedures with multiple statements, a new data analysis tab in our...
Introduction NoSQL databases, such as Apache Cassandra, are often used in operational applications. However, a new breed of databases, such as VoltDB, are revolutionizing the fast data landscape. VoltDB is an in-memory NewSQL transactional database for fast data applications, currently in use by major telcos, financial...
Data is often repeated as the lifeblood of modern business. Companies use data to drive decisions and strategies, as well as run applications based off those decisions (which in turn generates new data for decisions and strategies, which new applications are based off, and so...
Digital has become the new mantra for success and every Enterprise across the globe wants to ‘go digital’. As more companies embark on their digital transformation journey, they often need to build new fast data applications that rely on cutting edge technology. This requires them...
