First off: I’m not here to bash NoSQL. NoSQL came into existence for a good reason — your generic legacy SQL RDBMS is often slow and expensive when compared to NoSQL alternatives. But much of the discussion I’ve seen about NoSQL, NewSQL, Legacy RDBMS and...
It’s that time of year — the “wrap up/planning” blogs are among us as we look to a new year.With that, VoltDB has decided to put together a few tips and recommendations to consider when evaluating database technologies in 2018. Whether you’re in the market...
CSPs are in a critical period of transformation right now. Omnipresent connectivity is driving new disruptive business models which are further driving up demands on the networks. Virtualization of appliances and systems is seen as a necessary step to add the agility to meet these...
For decades, relational databases was the de-facto choice for financial service companies, until the 2000s where systems started to face challenges with scalability and availability as the amount of data being processed and consumed shaped how companies conducted their business.NoSQL databases emerged as a reaction...
In this post we describe VoltDB’s high availability architecture and how it interacts with bonded networks. Together they offer protection and continuity against network failovers. How do we know? Because we tested it and describe the tests we ran to verify compatibility with various bonded...
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on November 1, 2017 on the InfoWorld blog. It is republished with permission. Even Google and Amazon can’t process data instantly—here’s how to combat latency in your real-time application Despite all the advances we’ve seen in data processing and database technology,...
Gamers want real-time offers and micro-transactions — but only if they are useful. This is a key finding from The Psychology of Waiting, a survey of 2,000 US consumers conducted by VansonBourne and sponsored by VoltDB. Almost 85% of consumers play online games and/or mobile...
Modern applications have two primary needs:performance and ease of operations, both at scale.Performance The performance consists of two aspects: throughput and latency. Both are driven by applications becoming machine-driven i.e. API-driven. Humans will wait much longer than an API will since APIs have strict latency...
Deciding on a database technology that best suits a given need can be difficult, especially when there are multiple versions of a technology. VoltDB is no different, as we offer three core software offerings. To simplify your decision of which version of VoltDB is right...
VoltDB and DBTA teamed up to host a webinar in October titled “Architectural Considerations for a Modern Database to Operate at Scale”. We had a number excellent questions during that session, which are reproduced below. For those who missed the webinar, you may view it...