Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move...
2017 was a breakout year for mobile gaming. Even though games only accounted for 40% of the total mobile app downloads for 2017, a total of 80% of app spending in 2017 was generated by mobile games. Mobile game spending even out performed PC gaming...
Everybody ‘gets’ the concept of a Viking Movie. It’s got boats, men in hats with horns, lots of fighting and often a one way trip to Valhalla. So imagine you decide to crowdfund one. Things start off really well, and then turns into a mess,...
Telcos run some of the most demanding data management environments in the business world. There’s the network environment: Telco network efficiency guidelines have extreme requirements for the availability and performance of network infrastructure, hardware and software: known as “six 9s”, or 99.9999% availability. That equates...
Written from the ground up to run in-memory, VoltDB is the solution for fast data applications that need to transact in real-time. By occupying this unique place in the database landscape, VoltDB solves a problem that’s pervasive across many industry verticals where organizations are motivated to...
Fast Data -- some of our customers have told us that managing fast data is like drinking from a fire hose. I find it interesting how often water is used when talking about data. Clive Humby, back in 2006, called data the new "oil", but I...
In the newest version of VoltDB, we’ve added a new client API to make calling a single-partition procedure at every partition easier. This blog post explains what it does, why we did it, and how to use it.
Billions and billions[1] of transactions are executed each and every day by production-deployed VoltDB applications. A back-of-the-napkin calculation puts the number north of 50 billion a day. The number is likely much, much higher. These billions of transactions are executed across a variety of innovative applications,...
It’s a land grab out there with new companies coming to market every day with cool new applications and services. These companies include consumer product and service innovators such as Uber, Airbnb, and Fitbit, as well as B2B leaders you may not know yet, such...