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Integrating VoltDB with the Spring Framework

March 30th, 2012 in Best Practices / Community / VoltDB Products
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I’ve been writing Spring applications for a few years now and I’ve always been struck by the framework’s flexibility. A developer can write a web application in several distinct ways there is no discernible difference from an end user’s perspective.  Freeing the developer from strict implementation processes and design patterns greatly expands the choices a developer can make, such that the developer can write an implementation that fits the specifics of just one application and then take a completely different approach that is more suitable for another application.

Integrating external services, such as databases, file systems, third-party remote invocation services … Read more

 

New and Improved Node.js Driver for VoltDB

February 15th, 2012 in VoltDB Products
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On June 14, 2011, Jacob Wright (Twitter: @jac_) published a pure Javascript Node.js driver for VoltDB. It is a great driver and it does just about everything a developer could ask for. It is pure Javascript so it runs everywhere and is written asynchronously so it follows the best practices of Node as well as those of VoltDB, which performs best when queries run asynchronously.

VoltDB is evolving constantly and we have just released a our own version of the Nodejs-VoltDB driver based upon Jacob’s excellent work.

Some of the new features include:

  • Cluster support – the client can connect

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