<p>By Adrian Bridgwater, February 04, 2014 Version 4.0 of analytics data tool arrives with a fanfare</p><p>Name your company something positively-aggressive and supercharged, rank up triple digit growth in recent financials, then claim to have built the world's fastest in-memory operational database. This is what VoltDB considers a normal morning's work as the firm now releases the version 4.0 of its core programmer-focused data product.</p><p>The firm says that VoltDB 4.0 can be used by developers to build ultra-fast applications capable of analytic insights with real-time analytics and "decisioning" functions. Did they just say decisioning instead of decision making?</p><p>VoltDB is said to be purpose-built to enable applications in telecommunications billing, gaming, sensor management, smart energy, and capital markets to interact in real-time and provide in-memory analytics. Version 4.0 features a tenfold throughput improvement of analytic queries and is capable of writes and reads on millions of data events per second.</p><p><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/database/voltdbs-superzapper-in-memory-decisionin/240165916">Keep reading...</a></p>