Volt Active Data Reviews & Product Details

Great platform to learn, scale and create applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

New user, yet exploring the features and functionalities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part about VoltDB is it provides in-memory analytics, which speeds up the real-time query response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What i don't like about voltDB is it doesn't support different OS and is sometimes challenging to find support online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VoltDB has been used by my company for a very long time. I don’t see it going anywhere anytime soon. In terms of data management and organization, Volt has been fabulous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system has been laggy and presents opportunities for bug fixes. Trying to raise a ticket with IS&T for an issue is almost impossible as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In spite of some limitations, the company constantly works on improvements and on new features. The newest version 5.0 demonstrates the company’s desire and ability to compete and to become a leader among the NewSQL vendors.

Unlike the traditional databases that are usually BASE-compliant, VoltDB is a fully ACID-compliant transactional database.

The durability of VoltDB is achieved via ability to update the database schema on the fly, without stopping the database.

The high availability in VoltDB achieved with clustering of the server nodes and data replication across the nodes and clusters.

In summary, the list of strengths:

• It is ACID compliant

• It fits well into a real-time engine category

• Supports a strong management of a failover, high-availability and durability options, and load balancing the workload

• Supports relations as well as JSON data models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since the VoltDB is in-memory database, once the database server stops the data is removed from the memory. That said, the users always need to set such configuration that it will not allow the data loss. VoltDB is not optimized for all types of queries, such as fetching and collating large data sets across multiple tables. VoltDB does not run on Windows and on Unix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VoltDB was created from the ground up as an in-memory relational, distributed database. It is not simply one of those Elephants bolting on an in-memory feature to their legacy relational database technology. VoltDB is a true NewSQL database technology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a bit pricey compared to other contemporary database technologies. That was an obstacle for us. However; the great team at VoltDB will work with you to get a deal done. Of course, when you see the performance of VoltDB and realize that your other solutions do not compare, you understand what you are paying for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great development environment, easy to build prototypes quickly, speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not available in MS Windows (though likely for good reasons). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.