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5 Things to Know About Open API Adoption

March 09, 2023

The adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), open and otherwise, has become a ‘topic du jour’. API usage continues to surge and many API-based tools are emerging to help developers and engineering teams take full advantage of APIs. At the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona, for example, APIs and API adoption was oft-discussed topics [...]

March 9, 2023
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NoSQL Due Diligence, Part 3: the Open Source Debacle

November 03, 2021

By: Briana Matejcik

Introduction The concept of open source has been integral to promoting a generation of NoSQL database platforms, each of which has a VC-funded backer and many of which now have successful IPOs; which has created some interesting dilemmas. But: Have these much-publicized ‘liquidity events’ created market expectations that are in direct conflict with the very [...]

November 3, 2021
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Volt Active Data Releases V8

February 07, 2018

By: Ruth Morgenstein

Volt Active Data 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. Volt Active Data’s customers use this power to solve real business problems that require prectibable low latency, […]

February 7, 2018
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QuickStart Video: Using Volt Active Data With Docker

January 16, 2018

By: Volt Active Data Blog Staff

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 covered a number of topics, including: Getting Volt [...]

January 16, 2018
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Volt Active Data Most Read Blog Posts in 2017

Year in Review: Top 5 Blog Posts from 2017…

January 02, 2018

By: Volt Active Data Blog Staff

…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 Volt Active Data decided to take a look back at the highlights on our database blog from 2017. Here are the top 5 performers — those most read: Numbers […]

January 2, 2018
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The Open Source Real-Time Question (and Fast Data Answers)

October 24, 2017

By: Volt Active Data Blog Staff

Rising Amounts of Information As we look at total amount of information created world wide, we see an exponentially rising curve. According to the 2017 Internet Trends study, the amount of total information generated in the world today is about 16 zettabytes (zb). Based on Kleiner estimates, this number will grow at least tenfold to [...]