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Join us via live stream at 6:30 p.m. Pacific to hear from database legend Mike Stonebraker, as well as VoltDB’s VP of Market Strategy, Mark Hydar, and Co-founder, Scott Jarr.… Read more

Last week in St. Louis, Dr. Michael Stonebraker gave the keynote address at the Strangeloop conference. His topic was In-Memory Databases – the Future is Now! Strangeloop is a fantastic multi-disciplinary tech conference run by Alex Miller (@puredanger) that may be the closest thing to geek heaven this side of graduate school. Alex and his crack staff, especially the ever-present Nick Cowan, kept things running very smoothly. The Peabody Opera House and its efficient staff provided an unusually opulent setting for discussions of concurrency, emerging languages, and alternative databases.

The audience, or as Javascript guru Andrew Luetgers (@lootsauce) tweeted, … Read more

One of the best parts about working for a growing start-up is the chance to leave keyboard and office behind and escape to meet users. I spent last week in San Jose at NoSQLNow – a conference designed to bring together users and vendors of “Not Only SQL” products.

VoltDB is, quite proudly, a SQL system and some passers-by raise an eyebrow as we explain this. But our modern OLTP database shares some of the
same design vocabulary as many NoSQL systems: we shard data; we run on commodity and cloud hardware; we scale horizontally; we design for update and … Read more

Getting away from the line-by-line details of code is necessary – the big picture matters. Getting away to Berlin, Germany, is a treat.  I’ve spent most of a week at the Berlin Buzzwords Conference http://berlinbuzzwords.de listening and talking about data management.  It’s hard not to feel spoiled.  Kudos to the event organizers; they created a nice environment for like-minded technologists to gather, interact and learn.

Below are a few brief insights and comments from the conference.

Web stacks.  Websites are linked by dynamic services – not simple URLs.  Sites integrate twitter, facebook, distributed authentication, gravatar, google analytics, URL shortners, advertising … Read more