Scott Jarr
Scott Jarr is co-founder and chief strategy officer at VoltDB. VoltDB provides a fully durable, in-memory relational database that combines high velocity data ingestion and real-time data analytics and decisioning to enable organizations to unleash a new generation of big data applications that deliver unprecedented business value. Organizations in markets ranging from financial services and web media, to public utilities and national defense, use VoltDB to narrow the “ingestion-to-decision” gap from minutes, or even hours, to milliseconds. VoltDB is privately held with offices in Billerica, Mass., and Santa Clara, Calif.
Articles by Scott Jarr
Big data has unceremoniously ended the era of the "all-purpose database." The days of sticking uniform data into a single database and running all your business applications off it are gone. Business data today comes in a variety of formats, from countless sources, in huge volumes and at fantastic speeds. Some data is incredibly valuable the instant it arrives, other data is only valuable when combined with large amounts of additional data and analyzed over time.
Posted April 10, 2013