From the website:
VoltDB is a blazingly fast relational database system. It is specifically designed for modern software applications that are pushed beyond their limits by high velocity data sources. This new generation of systems – real-time feeds, machine-generated data, micro-transactions, high performance content serving – requires database throughput that can reach millions of operations per second. What’s more, the applications that use this data must be able to scale on demand, provide flawless fault tolerance and give real-time visibility into the data that drives business value.
Note that the “community” version is only for development, testing, tuning. If you want to go to deployment, commercial licensing kicks in.
It’s encouraging to see all the innovation and development in SQL, NoSQL (mis-named but has stuck), graph databases and the like. Only practical experience will decide which ones survive but in any event, data will be more accessible than ever before. Data analysis and not data access skills will come to the fore.
To clarify, the community version of VoltDB can be used for any purpose you see fit, subject to the terms of the GPL3 license under which it is distributed. We do have users in production with the community edition of VoltDB.
The language on our website is meant to clarify that we at VoltDB don’t provide any formal support for the community edition, though the two editions are built from largely the same code.
Thanks for the write-up too! If you have any questions about VoltDB, let us know.
Comment by John Hugg — June 18, 2011 @ 10:03 pm
John – Thanks for the clarification! Might want to tweak the language on the website to make that clear.
Looking forward to learning more about VoltDB!
Comment by Patrick Durusau — June 19, 2011 @ 9:06 am