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The Big Data Value Continuum – Part 2

Scott Jarr — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:52:28 +0000

This is the second post in a two-part series entitled The Big Data Value Continuum. You can find Part 1 here.

Recall that in the world of Big Data, our fundamental assumption is that data no longer resides in a static database for its entire life. Big data demands that we squeak out the most value from the data that we have at every stage of its lifecycle. And, oh yeah, we’re collecting way more today than we did yesterday, so get ready for that challenge, too.

Part 2: Putting the Pieces Together

Let’s build on the concepts we … Read more

VoltDB Community Users Share Knowledge

Scott Jarr — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:39:52 +0000

VoltDB adoption and deployments are accelerating. We’re working hard make our products easy to use in both cloud and privately-racked infrastructures. We see strong adoption in five application categories – capital markets (mostly around trading systems), digital advertising, online games, network monitoring, and intelligence/surveillance (national security, fraud mitigation, etc.).

With product evaluations on the rise, organizations are increasingly asking about user experiences, particularly for deployed VoltDB applications. There are some strong user and partner endorsements on our website. What’s also interesting is that VoltDB community users are now discussing implementation patterns and deployment experiences on blogs and public developer … Read more

The Big Data Value Continuum – Part 1

Scott Jarr — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:07:41 +0000

This is the first post in a two-part series entitled The Big Data Value Continuum. You can find Part 2 here.

Technology markets are challenging enough to understand but, when you throw in the added noise that typically accompanies early markets, gaining real insights can be next to impossible. It is not unusual to have ten or more vendors in a particular segment and adjacent segments, and countless products attempting to solve similar customer problems. Needless to say, tech markets are rarely clear in the beginning.

Big Data is just such a market today. One of the challenges we … Read more

VoltDB 2.0 Features Summary

Scott Jarr — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:25:15 +0000

VoltDB 2.0 was released last week and I wanted to take this opportunity to summarize the important new features, including enhancements for database durability and recovery; key performance and interoperability improvements; and many enhancements geared at helping developers use VoltDB productively. Here are the details:

Durability and recovery. Version 2.0 introduces a new feature called Command Logging that allows VoltDB databases to be fully recoverable in the face of severe failures caused by hardware and software crashes. Available in VoltDB Enterprise Edition, Command Logging ensures that every transaction applied to a VoltDB database is separately logged to disk. Following a