In 1972, Dr. Edsger Dijkstra wrote “The Humble Programmer,” in which he laid out his ideas about how to best write computer programs. Back in that world, programming was a big problem, particularly because the programmer was constrained by the computing power of the machine....
Recently Forrester group has started to talk about "translytics" and Translytical Databases - databases that can “Deliver Analytics At The Speed Of Transactions”. Is this more marketing hype? Or is there something to it?A traditional OLTP database handles lots of rapid fire transactions, but doesn’t...
Previously, I critiqued the Forrester Wave Translytical Data Platforms Q4 2017 report. At the end, I promised to provide a list of criteria to evaluate translytical databases. In order to create that list, we need to start with a solid definition of Translytics.The Forrester...
VoltDB is pleased to announce V8. Our engineering team has spent the last year adding features across the product to bring you the fastest database to handle millions of decisions per second, with single-digit millisecond latencies. VoltDB’s customers use this power to solve real business...
Getting up to date answers about recent events and asking the same question about older data is really hard to do using open source. The Lambda Architecture is a somewhat complicated way of doing this kind of mass scale, relatively fast, open source data processing.The...
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...