Streaming Events: Are you Storing Decisions or Taking Them?
There’s a lot of talk right now about how 5G and the IIoT will increase volumes of ‘transactions’ driven by streaming events, but equally, there’s a lot of hand waving and vague definitions about what a ‘transaction’ actually is. As a consequence, I would argue people are overestimating what can be done with clever queues [...]
Do You Have Scooby-Doo Transactions or Real Ones?
SCOOBY-DOO and all related characters and elements © & ™ Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers. My youngest child recently went through a brief ‘Scooby-Doo’ phase. After it ended I asked him why he had lost interest. He looked at me with all the fury a small boy can muster and hissed “It’s. Always. A. Man. In. [...]
If Latency is Important, You Should Think Twice
Redis recently announced a US$100M round of funding; a positive sign for the industry, especially in the current challenging environment. In the article, co-founder and CTO Yiftach Shoolman states ambitiously that “If latency is important, you should think twice before you use a database other than Redis”. Always ready for a challenge, we did think […]
Volt Active Data Releases V10
Volt Active Data has just released V10 - a momentous milestone in our evolution from a very fast, highly-available ACID database to a complete fast data solution. Built to handle the streaming use cases of today and the future, V10 delivers high-performance with predictable low-latency on a range of streaming and transactional processing workloads. A [...]
What Telco Can Teach Us About IIoT
An excerpt from our latest whitepaper, “Proactive Fraud Prevention for Enterprise IoT” Throughout the history of computing, a clear pattern has emerged of malign activity that exploits standards and norms, appearing almost as soon as the technology in question reaches critical mass. As soon as people had PC’s and started copying games on floppy disks, [...]
A Reality Check for 5G Real-Time
While we applaud other vendors reaffirming what we here at Volt Active Data have been professing and delivering on, for several years, simply adding a few buzzwords doesn't cut it. Without specific details, it merely adds to the confusion in the market and makes the job of a technology decision maker much more difficult. For [...]