As the need for real-time data increases thanks to the Internet of Things and growing demand for mobile services, organizations are looking for new ways to capture and process information.
In response to this demand database company VoltDB is launching version 5.0 of its in-memory database application offering increased support for the Hadoop ecosystem, expanded SQL support and a new Management Center.
"Developers are in need of better tools with which to develop fast data streaming applications with real-time analytics and decision making across industries," says Bruce Reading, President and CEO of VoltDB. "As the popularity and adoption for Hadoop continues to surge, there is an increased need for integration between fast and big data so developers can focus on the applications and not the infrastructure. Version 5.0 meets that demand".
Along with improved Hadoop support key features of the latest release include new export connectors for HDFS, HTTP, Kafka and RabbitMQ as well as Avro format. There’s also a new Kafka data Import option as well as bulk data import from, JDBC Loader, Hadoop OutputFormat and Vertica Udx. The new VoltDB Management Center (VMC) provides browser-based, one-stop database monitoring and configuration management.
As an example of how effective the product is, VoltDB Developer John Hugg has used version 5.0 to develop a real-time analytics app that counts the number of unique mobile devices/types of devices accessing an application. He was able to do that using only 30 lines of code, while the traditional Lambda architecture would have needed thousands of lines.
The latest version of VoltDB is available to download now. For more information visit the company's website.
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