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 to unscheduled downtime of no more than 31 seconds PER […]
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 put their business insights to operational use against a deluge […]
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 like the water metaphor — water is a natural […]
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, applications not practical, or sometimes even possible, to build […]
