I also found this: "VoltDB is an independent, Boston area-based company co-founded by DBMS R&D pioneer Mike Stonebraker and startup veteran Andy Palmer, workin

I also found this: "VoltDB is an independent, Boston area-based company co-founded by DBMS R&D pioneer Mike Stonebraker and startup veteran Andy Palmer, working in stealth mode on the next-generation of OLTP DBMS." So it's a biased legend. Sincerely if one is investing a lot in something like VoltDB this buzz about NoSQL DBs and especially the fact that they are starting to be actually used to get work done can be a problem.