Category: Expert Articles
“Time series engines are great for storing and retrieving information that are related to a specific point in time. Common use cases include IoT devices sending sensor data, financial/stock information, and event logs from web...
“Modern applications are using data more intensely than ever before because their users are demanding it. But the legacy data infrastructure most companies are using cannot keep up because it wasn’t designed for this...
Q1. What are you currently working on? We recently released the first hard real-time DBMS for the commercial market named eXtremeDB/rt. Database vendors have equated “real-time” to mean “real-fast”, which is both confusing and incorrect. While...
Q1. Launched in 2017, DZDconnect, the DZD’s knowledge graph built on Neo4j, serves affiliated healthcare and medical professionals. How are knowledge graphs used for this use case? Diabetes is one of the most widespread...
The pandemic accelerated digital transformation across industries. Digital initiatives that were previously projected to be five, even ten years out, were implemented in months in response to the drastic shift to a remote environment....
“One of the aspects DataStax Astra DB improves upon (over Cassandra) is client connection security. To connect, all customers need to do is download their secure cloud bundle file, and the newer drivers take...
Q1. What is special about Directus 9? Directus 9 is the first Open Data Platform. We’ve expanded from headless content management to become a more capable data platform, focusing on flexibility, performance, and expanded data capabilities. ...
By David Rolfe, VoltDB’s senior technologist in EMEA I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard someone brag about how they got a set of disparate components to work together, but I almost...
Authors: Aaron Ploetz and Per Andreasen The stress of an unmaintained Apache Cassandra® solution was getting to the team of software engineers at the data-as-a-service (DaaS) company WellAware. They had applications to build, code to write, and more...
Q1. You have recently announced “Record Breaking Results” on the STAC-M3™ Benchmark for Financial Trading Applications. What is the STAC-M3™ Benchmark for Financial Trading Applications? STAC is the Securities Technology Analysis Center, an organization setup...