I work on the VoltDB Scrum team tasked to create interfaces – both import and export – to many other applications and systems in the broader ecosystem of big and fast data. It’s an always-interesting place to be since we’re in the center of the very rapidly evolving world of open source and private platforms, applications and solutions.
We looked at the basic differences between NoSQL and NewSQL in a recent post. Now let’s break the differences down specifically by looking at what developers really care about: Which problems can I solve with NoSQL? Equally important, where is NoSQL a bad fit? Where...
NoSQL and NewSQL databases are popular solutions in the data management space. We’re sometimes asked to clarify the difference between the two approaches. Here’s what you need to know if you’re trying to decide which solution to adopt in your organization. NoSQL vs. NewSQL: What's the...
I got some fairly harsh feedback for my last post, “Lies, Damned Lies and “Eventual Consistency.” It’s clear a lot of people were thrown by the assertion: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. In my job as a...
Working at VoltDB is a fantastic experience. Coming from Brown CS, I worked as a software engineering intern during the summer of 2016. I was part of the Data Replication (DR) team, which builds cross data-center replication and database backup and recovery software. I started by...
My name is Yuxuan Chen, a Brown University CS master's student, and I spent this summer as an intern in VoltDB. It’s been a valuable experience for me. I work on the ecosystem team, and my work mainly focuses on optimizing client APIs, deployment of VoltDB,...
I'm happy to introduce a fully featured, high-performance VoltDB client for the go language. The golang client is both feature and performance comparable to the VoltDB Java client. Support of golang Standard Library The golang standard library provides support for SQL database drivers. This support is represented...
I recently joined VoltDB as the lead Solutions Architect responsible for helping prospects, customers and partners in the West Coast and Central US. Most recently before joining VoltDB, I was part of the professional services group at one of the three major Hadoop vendors where...
Let me start by making an arrogant statement: There is no such thing as eventual consistency. There is only ‘Immediate Consistency’ and ‘Wrong’. A lot of people would regard me as being unreasonable, but from my perspective I have a chain of reasoning that I don’t think...
VoltDB hired Kyle Kingsbury, creator of the Jepsen Tests, to build a new, stronger, Jepsen test especially for VoltDB. We promise strong serializability in a distributed database, a stronger promise than almost any other system, and we’ve been working with Kingsbury to validate that promise. What...
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