Following from the idea that "one size no longer fits for all", a family of "NewSQL" specialized databases arose. To handle OLTP, researchers at MIT and Brown (and a few other places) built H-Store, a distributed, shared-nothing, in-memory database that got rid of locking, latching, buffering, and logging, beating the performance of traditional OLTP RDBMSs by nearly two orders of... Read More

VoltDB is an in-memory, relational, SQL, fully ACID database well suited to supporting transactional applications against high speed event feeds. We’ll discuss: Why VoltDB exists and the Stonebraker H-Store history How VoltDB differs from its academic roots (and why) Unique VoltDB capabilities that enable streaming data pipelines Some engineering insights after 6 years of developing a distributed, consistent, high performance,... Read More