VoltDB Blog » Henning Diedrich http://blog.voltdb.com VoltDB Blog Tue, 07 May 2013 21:53:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 877,000 TPS with Erlang and VoltDB http://blog.voltdb.com/877000-tps-with-erlang-and-voltdb/ http://blog.voltdb.com/877000-tps-with-erlang-and-voltdb/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:15:37 +0000 Henning Diedrich http://blog.voltdb.com/?p=614 -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

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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
]]> http://blog.voltdb.com/qa-my-talk-hamburg-javascript-meet/feed/ 0 695k TPS with Node.js and VoltDB http://blog.voltdb.com/695k-tps-nodejs-and-voltdb/ http://blog.voltdb.com/695k-tps-nodejs-and-voltdb/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:15:10 +0000 Henning Diedrich http://newblog.voltdb.com/?p=48 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

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