Need 640K TPS and perfectly accurate running totals? VoltDB has the answer. But it’s not what you’d expect… Anyone who has worked in the OLTP RDBMS space for any length of time will have noticed that heavy OLTP workloads don’t sit well with heavy summarization/COUNT (*)/running...
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...
My name is Yiqun Zhang and I worked as a software engineering intern on the SQL core team at VoltDB during the summer. The experience of working with so many smart and talented people was so much fun. I was proud to be part of...