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AOL
The ultimate gaming platform
AOL's Games.com division never misses a badge, point, or ranking with VoltDB as the front end to its big-data operation. With more than 5,000 free online games and players spread across the world, VoltDB handles massive data volume while delivering high performance — and then some. As its user base continues to grow, horizontal scalability became a chief requirement for Games.com, and VoltDB delivered.
To capture the tsunami of game-state updates and operational data its players were generating, Games.com moved from a NoSQL data store to VoltDB's NewSQL to scale up high-velocity data ingestion when the site relaunched in 2012 to embrace HTML5. In fact, Games.com worked with VoltDB to design a solution that integrates the best of both worlds: MongoDB is still used to accommodate heavy database reads, while VoltDB handles high volumes of writes.
Bottom line: AOL chose not to play games with their data. They tuned potential big-data ingestion problems into a big-data moneymaker with VoltDB.
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YellowHammer Media Group
Digital ad performance monitoring
YellowHammer built a performance-tracking platform that analyzes real-time metrics on click streams and ad conversion rates to optimize campaigns for up-to-the-minute performance. Built on the high data-ingest capabilities of VoltDB, YellowHammer's "Omnitarget" platform allows its clients' campaigns to stay on the bleeding-edge of consumer behavior and trends. With VoltDB, YellowHammer makes on-the-fly ad segmenting and targeting a reality.
The long-term vision for YellowHammer is to pair VoltDB with a deep analytical database like EMC Greenplum, creating the Holy Grail of business intelligence where active user behavior and historical data feed off each other to inform real-time decisions. It's a vision that creates a tremendous competitive advantage for YellowHammer and empowers the company to make the best possible decisions the instant a user interacts with its ad-serving system.
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Shopzilla
Retail price-comparison site
Shopzilla gets more OLTP from VoltDB. Serving consumers in the U.S. and Europe, the website connects shoppers with over 100 million products from tens of thousands of retailers so people can compare prices and track down the best deals. With discounts and new products constantly hitting the market, Shopzilla's application architecture concurrently supports thousands of writes and tens of thousands of reads per second, tracking it all in real time.
Shopzilla compared a host of NoSQL products, as well as sharded MySQL, but it fell in love with the speed of VoltDB and just had to have it. On a simple three-node evaluation cluster supporting full durability, Shopzilla architect Petter Måhlén achieved a general 60,000 writes per second with VoltDB. Further into his evaluation, VoltDB was able to insert approximately 230 million rows into mixed tables in roughly 2.5 hours. Fully optimized and in production, the blazing speed of VoltDB has also helped eliminate complicated caching and data pre-loading processes, simplifying Shopzilla's architecture to interact directly with the database.
Shopzilla is proof that when your application is doing hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, you're most likely doing it with VoltDB.
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Bursa Malaysia
Trade stream data quality
The Malaysian stock exchange ensures the integrity of critical trading data, with the speed of VoltDB in the middle to analyze transactions as they happen. If any data is discovered missing, VoltDB sends instant notifications to ensure that it's recovered and the trade is complete. For Bursa Malaysia, VoltDB let them build what many never thought possible: a trading system that catches transaction errors in real time, no matter how fast they're coming.
VoltDB plays a crucial role in ensuring the transactional consistency of high-velocity financial data, allowing the exchange to meet rigorous compliance regulations. Bursa Malaysia is one of the largest stock exchanges in Asia and hosts nearly 1,000 diversified companies. The exchange adheres to high standards of corporate governance practices as guided by the Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance.
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Eonblast
Open source Erlang driver for next-gen game servers
Indie game studio Eonblast pushes the envelope of what online games can be, and it's using VoltDB to push even harder. To launch an upcoming series of massive multiplayer online games (MMOG) that combine cinematic and role-playing elements across multiple platforms, Henning Diedrich, co-founder of Eonblast Corporation, developed his own Erlang client library for VoltDB and has contributed this code back to the open-source community (https://github.com/Eonblast/Erlvolt).
The Erlang-VoltDB client API is called Erlvolt, and Eonblast is using it to build a new high-throughput HTML5 game stack, featuring embedded Lua for game logic and VoltDB on the back end. To support the massive scale of the studio's new sci-fi franchise Solar Tribes, the software stack uses VoltDB to achieve linear scalability and maintain true ACID compliance, all with the goal of processing a million transactions per second without overtaxing the game logic scripter.
Some envelopes get pushed further than others with the speed and scale of VoltDB.
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Social Game Universe
Content management platform for building mobile games and Web apps
The Lightning platform from Social Game Universe delivers a streamlined toolset and blazingly fast API for anyone who wants to build a social application that can span multiple devices while scaling to handle massive user influx. And when apps blow up and go viral, Lightning relies on VoltDB on the back end to keep pace and satisfy API calls in milliseconds.
Lightning powers popular Facebook games like "Dirty Dancing Romance Resort" and interactive voting apps for live TV shows like "Over the Rainbow" from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In fact, for Over the Rainbow's national live broadcasts, VoltDB helped Lightning absorb user spikes without impacting performance, with API calls executing in 0.03 seconds (30ms/1000ms=.03) on average.
The speed and simplicity of designing social games on Lightning is practically calling out for people to build responsive new apps with cross-platform interactivity and up-to-the-second in-game analytics others thought was impossible. Now, it is on Lightning, powered by VoltDB.
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Sakura Internet
Network-monitoring app for analytics on high-velocity data
Sakura Internet's best defense against DDoS attacks is VoltDB. As an enterprise-class ISP headquartered in Osaka, Japan, Sakura is using VoltDB to ingest high volumes of network performance data in real time, catching abnormal traffic patterns before they can affect SLAs. The horizontal scalability of VoltDB also helps Sakura handle IP traffic spikes and bring hosts of new customers online.
Sakura systems engineers redesigned the company's network-monitoring processes based on the high write-throughput and transactional consistency of VoltDB. The app draws on massive volumes of network performance data, and then feeds that data back into the system to analyze it in real time. These analytics drive alerting processes and system monitoring consoles that combine to form the critical platform Sakura uses to keep its network running at peak performance.
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