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VoltDB

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VoltDB is an in-memory database designed by Michael Stonebraker, Sam Madden, and Daniel Abadi. That team had started an experimental version called H-Store while working at a set of US universities, which formed the basis for the commercial product; it is now marketed under the name Volt Active Data.

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2010 1
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An in-memory NewSQL database designed by pioneering database researchers for high-throughput transactional workloads. 1
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1. Wikipedia: VoltDB
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Volt Active Data (formerly VoltDB) is an in-memory database designed by Michael Stonebraker, Sam Madden, and Daniel Abadi.
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