Despite multiple challenger technologies (eg. Object Oriented databases), the relational databases from Oracle, IBM and Microsoft have prevailed supreme for over 30 years....
The world has changed massively in the past 20 years. Back in the year 2000, a few million users connected to the web using a 56k modem attached to a PC, and Amazon only sold books. Now billions of people are using to their smartphone...
Editor’s note: This post is re-posted here by permission from the author. The original post was on LinkedIn on January 10, 2018.The world has changed massively in the past 20 years. Back in the year 2000, a few million users connected to the web using a...
Docker is a powerful tool that many of our customers and community members use for the development and testing of distributed systems. What You'll Learn in This Video Recently, our Customer Success Manager, Ben Ballard, presented a Quick Start Tutorial on this topic. In his presentation, Ben...
The New Year brings about the perfect time to start fresh and set some new goals. So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a...
Forrester recently published a new Wave™ report on Translytical Data Platforms. In it, they define a Translytical Data Platform as: “A unified and integrated data platform that supports multi-workloads such as transactional, operational and analytical simultaneously in real-time, leveraging in-memory capabilities including support for SSD, Flash...
The internet is ablaze with articles and talk about hardware security flaws found recently in most modern processors, including chips from Intel and AMD - that is, in the processors used by everyone who runs software to provide a service. In other words, all of...
...and What they Say About the Future Happy 2018 everyone!In keeping with the tradition of reflection at the start of a new year, we at VoltDB decided to take a look back at the highlights on our database blog from 2017. Here are the top 5 performers...
Previously in part one of this blog series, I explained the problems with two methods of database interactions. Traditional JDBC-style interactions mean that locking and latching take up ~30% of compute time. This overhead skyrockets when you try to use a distributed system. A NoSQL key-value...
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...