VoltDB 3.0 introduces the use of JSON-encoded columns to allow more flexibility in how you structure and interact with your data. New SQL functions and index capabilities let you work more naturally with JSON data while maintaining the efficiency and transactional consistency of a relational database.

How?  A VoltDB JSON Example

Let’s assume that you want to implement a single sign-on (SSO) application using VoltDB.  You wish to store the login session for a set of different online sites under a common username.  Each login session could hold different user state, simple data values or possibly more complex structures. Additionally, … Read more

The VoltDB engineering team is thrilled to announce that VoltDB 3.0 is now available!  Over the past six months we’ve added a ton of features to VoltDB 3.0. This blog post lists the highlights, but that just scratches the surface. Look for future blog posts to dive into specific areas of version 3 functionality.

So let’s jump into what’s new in VoltDB 3.0…

Even Faster

VoltDB 3.0 has lower latency and more throughput than the VoltDB v2.x release.  We spent much of the past year re-engineering the transaction coordination architecture to minimize the communication between cluster nodes during transaction processing … Read more

A while ago I published my Go VoltDB driver to github (https://github.com/rbetts/voltdbgo).  I wrote the driver for three reasons: to learn and write a little go; to be able to test and script against VoltDB using go; and to experiment with some different VoltDB client patterns.

We, and the community, have written several production quality drivers for VoltDB (available at http://www.voltdb.com/community/downloads.php). The go driver, however, has not been tested for production use.

With caveats complete, what’s up with voltdbgo?

Firstly, it only supports synchronous clients. VoltDB 3.0 has greatly improved response latency for synchronous interactions and the … Read more