Industry Database technology Founded 2008 | Predecessor Nimbus DB Website www.nuodb.com | |
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | ||
NuoDB is a database startup company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It sells a NewSQL database that works in the cloud. It can work both for single vendor cloud setup as well as multi vendor cloud setup.
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History
The firm was founded in 2008 as NimbusDB, and changed its name to NuoDB in 2011. The company co-founders are Barry S. Morris, CEO and Jim Starkey. NuoDB is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2012, the firm received $12 million total in venture capital. Later, they received another round of investment of $14.2 million after adding Dassault Systèmes to their existing investors. The total investment is $26.2 million.
In 2013, Gartner listed NuoDB as a niche player in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech named NuoDB as one of their 2014 Innovation All Stars.
In 2015, Gartner again listed NuoDB, as a Visionary in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.
Technology
NuoDB is a distributed database company that sells "client/cloud relational database technology solutions." The NuoDB database is SQL compliant and has been called "NewSQL." It has a distributed object architecture that works in the cloud, which means that when a new server is added in order to scale-up the database, the database runs faster. The database scales out without sharding. The database distributes tasks amongst several processors to avoid bottlenecks of data. It uses peer-to-peer messaging to route tasks to nodes, and it is ACID compliant.
The database uses a "tiered approach — comprising multiple, redundant tiers of transaction engines (TE) and storage managers (SM)." This approach helps scale the data predictably in the cloud. NuoDB domains consist of several redundant TEs and SMs that can run on the same platform. Adding database capacity can be done by adding more TEs or SMs. NuoDB can support Windows 7+, Mac OS X 10.7+, Linux, Solaris x86, Amazon EC2 and JoyentCloud. The NuoDB Blackbirds release, the company's second generation DBMS, functions with one database distributed across more than one Amazon AWS servers in different locations.
The system was designed to align with – and expand upon – IBM computer scientist Edgar F. Codd’s 12 rules for relational databases. It adds the ability to run anywhere; elastic scalability; nonstop availability; a single, logical database; and distributed security. The system can process more than 1 million transactions per second. It is available in a free limited version, a free developer version, a professional paid version, and an enterprise version.
Release history
The firm's beta 8 database was released on April 9, 2012 and allowed platform support for Solaris. Release Candidate 1 was announced on November 15, 2012.
NuoDB Starlings release 1.0 was announced on January 15, 2013, and version 1.2 was released in August 2013.
Version 2.0, called the Blackbirds Release, was released in October 2013 with extended geographical support. In November 2014, the company released version 2.1, called Swifts, including low-latency HTAP capabilities.
Dec 22, 2015 NuoDB announced the GA Release of v2.4, known as Cranes.
Patents
NuoDB patented its "elastically scalable database". The patent was filed March 8, 2011 and approved on July 17, 2012. U.S. Patent 8,224,860 states the inventor as Jim Starkey.