VoltDB / In-Memory Database Blog (Page 17)
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Bruce Reading
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...
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John Crawford
A previous blog post by Ruth Morgenstein, VoltDB Director of QA, gave an overview of how we test at VoltDB. Read that for brief descriptions of our robust processes and culture of quality, including Agile development, continuous integration using Jenkins, Java and C++ unit tests, system integration tests, performance tests, and related topics.
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Ryan Betts
IoT data management platforms must manage both data in motion (fast data) and data at rest (big data). As things generate information, the data needs to processed by applications. Those applications must combine patterns, thresholds, plans, metrics, and more from analytics run against collected (big)...
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Jeremy Winters
We thank Jeremy Winters of VoltDB partner Full360 for this guest post, which first appeared on Full360’s Elastic Ninja blog. It is published here in its entirety.
About a year ago, a Full360 gaming customer had a requirement to create an analytics data warehouse for in-game events. These events are generated by various mobile and desktop versions of their games, representing significant actions in the game such as wins, losses, level ups, and in-game currency transactions. The final target for the data was a Vertica database running on AWS EC2 instances… to be analyzed and visualized with Tableau.
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John Hugg
2015 was a big year for VoltDB. Our product improved as we added exciting features and invested in making the product more robust. Our team has grown, as have the number of users, customers and revenue.
However, three things stand out that really make 2015 for...
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Dennis Duckworth
Choosing a database is a complex affair. Is performance the most important factor in the decision? Is the selection constrained by incumbent infrastructure and applications? Or are you working on a new application and feel free to consider the newest, hottest technologies – but then...
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Bruce Reading
The overwhelming availability of fast data, the datafication of humanity, is igniting a new era of innovation and reshaping industries. Volumes of data are pouring into enterprises, drowning them in the details about their customers, their products, and their networks.
Market disrupters have figured out how...
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Alan Hawley
Many choices in computing and data processing are positioned as an either/or choice: either adopt Cloud or stick with physical data centers; either manage development via Agile or stay with waterfall processes; either use an RDBMS or a NoSQL database; either go all in to...
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John Hugg
In my previous post, I described four applications (three implemented, one an example) that require, or at least strongly benefit from, strong ACID transactions. With that out of the way, we can now get to the fun bits.
Today’s claim: most databases that claim to be...
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Michael Pogany
MaxCDN is a content delivery network (CDN) provider that emphasizes reducing the latency and increasing the reliability of its rich-content delivery. It provides CDN services to digital advertisers, ad networks, publishers, hosting providers, gaming companies, and mobile providers.
The company’s business challenge was to provide customers...
