At our recent webinar, “NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Evaluating Database Technologies for 2019”, we received a number of questions from attendees about VoltDB’s capabilities and architecture. From orchestrating VoltDB with Kubernetes, to comparing VoltDB to TimeScaleDB, here’s a recap on the key questions asked during the...
In this video of his Fast Data London 2018 keynote, Dr. Stonebraker focuses on the current market for “Big Data” products, specifically those that deal with one or more of “the 3 V’s”. He suggests that the volume problem for business intelligence applications is pretty well...
Wow, what a summer. It feels like our interns just arrived and now they’re all back to school. With their help we’ve shipped some great features in V8.3: Better SPI balance after a failed node rejoins the cluster VoltDB’s K-safety feature is achieved by having a leader...
This week, we released VoltDB v8.2. Here are some of the highlights: Table TTL If you’ve ever built a high-volume app for Volt, or hooked Volt up to a Kafka or Kinesis stream, you know how important it is to age out the old data so...
This week published a new ebook focusing on six examples of VoltDB being utilized for real-time decisioning by our customers. It highlights ways that VoltDB is being used to: Levearge machine learning for real-time fraud prevention Transform personalization in media and gaming Revolutionize telco real-time...
Digital transformation has become one of those industry-swamping buzz phrases that emerges to dominate discussion and innovation in telecoms. However, the good news is that we’re moving beyond the marketing hype of digital everything and figuring out how digitally transformed telecoms is actually going to work.
As we enter the 5G era, strategic telcos are digitizing their infrastructures to not only handle the explosion of data requirements, but to also take advantage of the new business opportunities and revenue streams that will come about with the advent of 5G. Recently we held...
The world is speeding up; people expect customized information and services immediately. In these tumultuous times, some companies are clinging to their legacy data infrastructure as a security blanket. However, traditional RDBMSes are just not able to provide the massive scales, edge distribution, and virtual...
Recently we held our Q1 Innovation Week, culminating in presentations and voting on the innovation projects created by our engineering staff. VoltDB engineering is a Agile scrum organization, with two week sprints, and product releases every other sprint. Innovation week occurs one week every quarter. During...