voltactivedata/volt-developer-edition repository overview

⁠Introduction

The Volt Active Data Developer Edition lets you experiment with the Volt product suite quickly and easily. If you’re looking to evaluate next-gen technology to solve your latency, ACID, scale, total cost of ownership and/or high availability problem, you’ve come to the right place.

⁠Quick Start Guide

To use the developer edition you’ll need a license key⁠ and Java >= 21.

⁠Use the sample project

The TollCollectDemo is described here. It’s a simplified application that uses both the streaming⁠ and real-time engine⁠ parts of Volt.

First obtain your license key here⁠.

Then set the LICENSE_FILE_PATH environment variable, using your full path:

We start by cloning a git project with a sample Tolling Demo⁠:

We then build our code using maven:

Maven creates a whole directory structure, so once it’s done we need to change to the directory we kick the demo off from:

We are now in the same directory as the docker-compose script⁠. We use this script to pull the docker images and start the application:

There will be a big burst of activity in your docker environment.

Now open the ‘Quick Start⁠’ guide, and continue reading.

⁠Environment Variables & Configuration Options

⁠License Key

As mentioned above you’ll need a license Key⁠ and a variable pointing at it:

⁠Useful Ports

⁠Changing RAM usage

See the docs for TollCollectDemo⁠.

⁠Changing CPU usage / transactions per second

See the docs for TollCollectDemo⁠.

⁠Image Variants

latest → Stable version with latest updates

⁠External Documentation & Source Code

• Main docs page for Volt is here⁠.
• Github repo for sample tolling project is here⁠.