VoltDB launches Next-Generation Open-Source OLTP DBMS

By Vasudev Ram



Seen on Hacker News:

VoltDB launches Next-Generation Open-Source OLTP DBMS

Excerpts:

[ Under the leadership of Postgres and Ingres co-founder, Mike Stonebraker ... It (VoltDB) has outperformed traditional OLTP database systems by a factor of 45 on a single server ... VoltDB is available immediately from www.voltdb.com. The open-source Community Edition is licensed under the GPL and is available for free. ... ]

Details about how the comparisons were run were not provided in the above article, though.

Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises