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...
There’s a very simple distinction in the database world that tends to be ignored. Your database either:Defines the WorldOr, itReacts to the WorldIf your database ‘Defines the World’ it means that if it doesn’t happen in the database, it doesn’t happen at all....
Innovation in the telecommunications industry has been led primarily by hardware vendors, offering differentiating capabilities to carriers. This has created an environment of vendor lock-in and staggered progress due to lack of agility. A side effect of this is equipment and infrastructure obsolescence at a...
This post is a contribution from Cheryl Wiebe, Partner of Advanced Analytics at Teradata West Region.If you follow Gartner, Forrester and other industry analysts, you’re probably a reader of Gartner’s ‘Hype Cycles’ and Forrester’s ‘Waves’. According to Gartner, IoT is at the top of the...
This blog was adapted from a post that first appeared on LinkedIn.There's an interesting article in The Economist on consumer IOT. Here's an interesting excerpt:Providers have focused on the home, touting products such as coffee pots that turn on when the alarm clock rings, lighting and...
VoltDB was a sponsor of the recent In-Memory Computing Summit in San Francisco. I always enjoy going back to San Francisco. I stayed at a cool flat on Nob Hill and the show was enjoyable and productive - we had some great conversations with attendees...
Ryan Betts is one of VoltDB’s founding developers, and is currently our CTO. He’s been designing and building distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure software for almost 20 years. Chances are, if you’ve used the Internet, some of your ones and zeros passed through a slice...
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