Volt Active Data 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 of excellent questions during that session, which are reproduced below. Editor’s Note Unless otherwise noted, the question is coming from a webinar attendee via our chat functionality […]
The Open Source Real-Time Question (and Fast Data Answers)
Comparing Fast Data Performance: A comparison of Volt Active Data and Cassandra Benchmarks
Introduction NoSQL databases, such as Apache Cassandra, are often used in operational applications. However, a new breed of databases, such as Volt Active Data, are revolutionizing the fast data landscape. Volt Active Data is an in-memory NewSQL transactional database for fast data applications, currently in use by major telcos, financial services, and many other markets. […]
5 Fast Data Trends in Financial Services
The financial industry is undergoing a fast data revolution and we hear from a lot of our clients about why fast data is becoming an increasingly critical requirement in their IT infrastructure. This blog looks at some of the key trends for leveraging fast data in the financial services industry today. 1. Moving Data at […]
How is Fast Data Transforming the Telco Landscape?
Telco networks have always generated fast data at line speed. In telco use cases like policy management, decisions are already made on that data in near real-time. In many other cases, network and customer data is backhauled into a data lake and analyzed over hours or days to gain insight into the subscriber experience or […]
Fast Data in Financial Services: Key Trends to Maintain a Competitive Edge
Financial services institutions are faced with a number of high-pressure demands, whether it be from regulators, investors, customers, and internal business users. These demands require that firms create, monitor, and provide access to vast amounts of data which must be immediately accessible, correct, and stored for various lengths of time. Data is a lifeblood as […]
Fast Data Pipeline Design: Updating Per-Event Decisions by Swapping Tables
Volt Active Data was one of the first companies to enable a new modern breed of applications, applications that combine streaming, or “fast data”, tightly with big data.We call these applications Fast Data Pipelines. First, a quick high-level summary of the fast data pipeline architecture: The first thing to notice is that there is […]
Who will win in the IoT?
Let’s talk about The Internet of Things, or “IoT”. You cannot turn a page lately in the technology press and not see those three letters. The buzz is that IoT is a revolution. IoT is transformative. IoT is unavoidable – all true. Some suggest Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big paradigm shift – […]
Keeping up with Header Bidding’s performance requirements
Pretty much anyone who knows adtech will tell you that header bidding is the future of the industry. Header bidding allows publishers to field ad bids in the header of a webpage, which is before anything else (including other ad placements) loads. This allows publishers to establish a “premium” auction instead of the typical real-time bidding […]
Fraud – Five Takeaways from our Analyst Webinar
Many Volt Active Data customers are creating externally-facing applications which face the potential of being hacked, with the applications and/or data being used in some fraudulent manner that can cost the businesses considerable time, effort and money. In addition, some of our customers, such as WhiteOps, have created businesses based on identifying and disrupting fraud. […]