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Analytics at the speed of transactions has become an important agenda item for organizations. Translytical data platforms, an emerging technology, deliver faster access to business data to support various workloads and use cases. EA pros can use them to drive new business initiatives. Forrester identified the 12 most significant translytical vendors — Aerospike, DataStax, GigaSpaces, IBM, MemSQL, Microsoft, NuoDB, Oracle, Redis Labs, SAP, Splice Machine, and VoltDB — and researched, analyzed, and scored them against 25 criteria. Details >> (the link is provided by DataStax here ) The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2017:

Myth #1: “VoltDB requires stored procedures.” This was true for 1.0, but no one seems to notice it’s been false since we shipped 1.1 in 2010. VoltDB supports unforeseen SQL without any stored procedure use. We have users in production who have never used a single stored procedure. Myth #2: “VoltDB doesn’t support ad-hoc SQL.” This is just a rephrasing of Myth #1 and is still false. Myth #3: “VoltDB is slow unless I use stored procedures.” Well, no. VoltDB can run faster with stored procedures, but it’s still fast if they are not used. In our internal benchmarks on pretty cheap single-socket hardware, we can run about 50k write statements per second, per host with full durability. Myth #4: “I have to know Java to use VoltDB.” As of VoltDB 3.0, released over a year ago, (we’re on V4.2 today), a user can build VoltDB apps and run the server without ever directly interacting with the Java CLI tools or any Java code. Myth #5: “VoltDB has garbage collection problems because it is wri...