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New-age Transactional Systems - Not Your Grandpa's OLTP
Most developers are familiar with the special requirements of high volume OLTP applications such as airline reservation systems and capital market (“tick”) feeds – systems that process massive amounts of real-time data with “high 9s” availability and ACID-level consistency. Such extreme requirements demand highly specialized data infrastructures costing many millions of dollars.
Fueled by mobile computing, online gaming and interactive web applications, a new class of transactional systems is emerging. These systems have many characteristics of their traditional OLTP counterparts, including the need for guaranteed transactional consistency, but there are also important differences:
- Time-to-Implementation. Most new transactional systems must be built, tested and deployed in less than six months.
- Deployed to Cloud. Cloud deployments are increasingly common for all classes of new applications, and transactional systems are no exception.
- Low Cost Profile. New transactional applications must be brought online at a fraction of the cost of traditional OLTP solutions.
In this session, John Hugg will discuss real-world applications of high volume transaction processing. He’ll explore high- and low-frequency transaction profiles, as well as the need for real-time analytics. Importantly, John will also discuss how high volume transactional solutions like VoltDB can be integrated into existing data infrastructures.
John Hugg
VoltDB
John Hugg has spent his entire career working with databases and information management. At the start of 2008, he was lured away from a Ph.D.program by Mike Stonebraker to work on what became VoltDB. As the first engineer on the product, he liaised with a team of academics at MIT, Yale and Brown who were building H-Store, VoltDB's research prototype. Then he helped build the world-class engineering team at VoltDB to continue development of the open source and commercial products. John has Bachelors and Masters of Science in Computer Science from Tufts University.