It’s totally true that this optimization only matters if you’re pushing your database. Of course as a VoltDB employee, we have a number of smaller customers wh

It’s totally true that this optimization only matters if you’re pushing your database. Of course as a VoltDB employee, we have a number of smaller customers who use VoltDB because it allows a small shop to do things that would be too expensive with a traditional system. Just because you’re small, doesn’t mean you don’t have a high-throughput problem. One example is Xacte, which tracks marathon bibs as they fly by RFID sensors in the course. The issue is when 50 people run by a sensor in one second, the de-duplification code in the sensor sometimes breaks down, and their system gets hundreds of triggers. They literally have a van full of equiptment that includes a small VoltDB cluster keeping accurate runner positioning for events like the LA Marathon.