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877,000 TPS with Erlang and VoltDB

April 5th, 2013 in Blog / VoltDB Benchmarks
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-Edited 5/2/13 by Henning Diedrich to correct configuration typos.

Running on a suitable EC2 configuration (see details below), with our new VoltDB Erlang driver we achieved 877,519 transactions per second.

I am Henning Diedrich [1], CEO of Eonblast Corporation[2] a games company. I would like to introduce the new Erlang VoltDB driver we created, a piece of software that allows two genre-defining technologies to work together: VoltDB [3] and Erlang [4].

The Driver

I first came to VoltDB on the hunt for a better database for heavy duty online-game servers. I experienced first hand [5] what a … Read more

 

Q&A from My Talk at the Hamburg Javascript Meet-up

June 22nd, 2012 in Community / VoltDB Products
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On June 18 I gave a talk to the Javascript meet-up group in Hamburg, Germany.  It was a very enjoyable evening.   I’d like to thank Martin Kleppe for organizing the event, and the meet-up group members for investing an evening to learn more about Node.js and VoltDB.

The group asked some interesting questions during the Q&A part of my talk and in the additional discussions afterward.  Below are some of the questions I remember, along with written responses.

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Q: What are the primary differences between VoltDB Community Edition (open source license) and Enterprise Edition (commercial license)?
A: Aside from
 

695k TPS with Node.js and VoltDB

April 17th, 2012 in Community / VoltDB Benchmarks / VoltDB Products
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Hi, I’m Henning Diedrich, co-founder and CEO of Eonblast, Inc. I’m a guest contributor to VoltDB’s blog.

In February I was contacted by VoltDB about conducting a benchmarking project.  The company had recently released an updated version of a Node.js client driver that had originally been authored by Jacob Wright, one of VoltDB’s community members.  When I began looking into Node.js, it became clear that its architecture and scaling goals are quite well aligned with VoltDB’s, so I was intrigued by the idea of running a benchmark to see what the combined technologies could produce.  Like all languages and libraries, … Read more