What is VoltDB?
VoltDB is a fundamental redesign of the RDBMS that provides unparalleled performance and scalability on bare-metal, virtualized and cloud infrastructures. VoltDB is a modern in-memory architecture that supports both SQL + Java with data durability and fault tolerance.
VoltDB is a tool in the In-Memory Databases category of a tech stack.
Key Features
In-Memory Performance with On-Disk DurabilityTransparent Scalability with Data ConsistencyNewSQL – All the benefits of SQL with Unlimited ScalabilityJSON Support for Agile DevelopmentACID Compliant TransactionsExport Data to OLAP Stores and Data Warehouses
VoltDB Pros & Cons
Pros of VoltDB
- ✓SQL + Java
- ✓A brainchild of Michael Stonebraker
- ✓In-memory database
- ✓Very Fast
- ✓NewSQL
Cons of VoltDB
No cons listed yet.
VoltDB Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to VoltDB?
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Hazelcast
With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution.
Aerospike
Aerospike is an open-source, modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage, processors and networks. It was designed to operate with predictable low latency at high throughput with uncompromising reliability – both high availability and ACID guarantees.
