Giving Erlvolt and VoltDB a whirl takes seconds, i.e. copy pasting these four lines. 9 minutes 20 seconds including all reading, downloading and building:
git clone -b voltdb-3.7.0.5 https://github.com/VoltDB/voltdb.git voltdb
git clone https://github.com/Eonblast/Erlvolt.git erlvolt
cd voltdb && ant && cd examples/voter && ./run.sh &
cd erlvolt && make profile bench
Once you ran the first line above, i.e. started cloning VoltDB why not read the following while waiting for the dl: