NuoDB

NuoDB
Industry Database technology
Predecessor Nimbus DB
Founded 2008
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Key people
Number of employees
 85[1]
Website www.nuodb.com

NuoDB is a database company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2008,[2] NuoDB has been recognized on the Gartner Magic Quadrant[3] and its technology is used by Dassault Systèmes, Kodiak, Alfa Systems and UAE Exchange.[4][5]

History

The firm was founded in 2008[2] as NimbusDB, and changed its name to NuoDB in 2011. The company co-founders are Barry S. Morris, who became the company's CEO, and Jim Starkey. NuoDB is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6][7] NuoDB patented its "elastically scalable database". The patent was filed March 8, 2011 and approved on July 17, 2012.[6][8] U.S. Patent 8,224,860 states the inventor as Jim Starkey.[9] In 2012, the firm received $12 million total in venture capital.[7][10]

In 2013, Gartner listed NuoDB as a niche player in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.[11] Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech named NuoDB as one of their 2014 Innovation All Stars.[12] In February 2014, NuoDB announced an extension to its Series B funding round led by Dassault Systèmes. The round added $14.2 million to the company's funding. Morgenthaler Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners participated in the round.[13][3][2]

In 2015, Gartner again listed NuoDB, this time as a Visionary in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.[14][15] Morris, the company's founding CEO, became executive chairman in July 2015. Bob Walmsley, previously executive vice president of sales and services, was promoted to CEO.[1][16] NuoDB raised a $17 million financing round in 2016 from existing investors including Dassault Systèmes, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures. At that time, the company had raised a total of $59.7 million in funding.[15][17][18]

CauseSquare announced its partnership with NuoDB in 2017. NuoDB became the official database for the social engagement platform which connects causes and organizations with donors and volunteers.[19]

Technology

NuoDB is an elastic SQL database for cloud applications.[20] The NuoDB database is SQL compliant and has been called "NewSQL."[6][21] It has a distributed object architecture that works in the cloud,[6][22] which means that when a new server is added in order to scale-out the database, the database runs faster.[7][23][24] The database scales out without sharding. The database distributes tasks amongst several processors to avoid bottlenecks of data.[25] It uses peer-to-peer messaging to route tasks to nodes,[26] and it is ACID compliant.[27]

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.[28] The NuoDB 2.6 release added support for active-active database deployments across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones.[29] Unlike other database systems, NuoDB makes it possible to expand its databases by adding more servers rather than simply replacing hardware.[2]

The system was designed to align with – and expand upon – IBM computer scientist Edgar F. Codd’s 12 rules for relational databases.[30] It adds the ability to run anywhere; elastic scalability; nonstop availability; a single, logical database; and distributed security.[31] The system can process more than 1 million transactions per second.[32] It is available in a free developer version ("Community Edition"), a professional paid version, and an enterprise version.[32][33][34] The Community Edition was expanded on January 31, 2017 to enable scale-out across multiple hosts.[35]

Release history

Date Release Notes
April 9, 2012 beta 8 database allowed platform support for Solaris.[8]
November 15, 2012 Candidate 1 [36]
January 15, 2013 1.0 [32][37]
May 2013 1.1 included migration assistant to move databases from Windows SQL Server onto NuoDB[38]
August 2013 1.2 [39]
October 2013 2.0, Blackbirds extended geographical support[28]
November 2014 2.1, Swifts including low-latency HTAP capabilities[40]
December 22, 2015 2.4, Cranes
September 2016 2.5 added SQL enhancements[15]
January 2017 2.6 added table partitions, storage groups, and active-active support for Amazon Web Services Inc. functionality[41]

References

  1. 1 2 Gregory T. Huang (July 22, 2015). "Database Startup NuoDB Gets New CEO, Looks to Grow Faster". Xconomy.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Jordan Novet (February 26, 2014). "Database startup NuoDB raises $14.2M to capture your company’s most critical data". VentureBeat.
  3. 1 2 Frederic Lardinois (February 26, 2014). "NuoDB Raises $14.2M Round Led By Dassault Systèmes For Its Distributed Database Management System". Tech Crunch.
  4. ↑ A.R. Guess (September 14, 2016). "NuoDB 2.5 Simplifies Database Migration for Technology Companies". Dataversity.
  5. ↑ "Alfa Partners with Elastic SQL Database Provider NuoDB". Monitor Daily. February 9, 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Darrow, Bow. "Database superstar Jim Starkey touts NuoDB’s new patent." Gigaom. August 8, 2012
  7. 1 2 3 Alspach, Kyle. "NuoDB: We’ve invented the database of the future." Boston Business Journal. July 30, 2012
  8. 1 2 DeLuca, Nick."BostInno Business Wrap: Carbonite, NuoDB, iRobot, Big Data Boston, and More." BostInno. August 10, 2012
  9. ↑ United States Patent 8,224,860 approved July 17, 2012.
  10. ↑ Alspach, Kyle. "Database startup NuoDB names backers in $10M roundup." Boston Business Journal. July 9, 2012
  11. ↑ Feinberg, Donald. Adrian, Merv. Heudecker, Nick. Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Gartner. October 21, 2013
  12. ↑ "BBJ and MHT name 2014's Innovation All-Stars." Boston Business Journal. Oct. 17, 2014
  13. ↑ McMillan, Liz. "NuoDB Announces New Round of Investment." February 27, 2014
  14. ↑ Feinberg, Donald. Adrian, Merv. Heudecker, Nick. Ronthal, Adam M. Palanca, Terilyn Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems 2015. Gartner. October 12, 2015
  15. 1 2 3 Darryl K. Taft (September 13, 2016). "NuoDB Delivers SQL Enhancements in Release 2.5". eWeek.
  16. ↑ Sara Castellanos (July 29, 2015). "VC-backed tech firm tackles $40B database tech market with new CEO". Boston Business Journal.
  17. ↑ Jeff Engel (February 22, 2016). "Database Startup NuoDB Grabs $17M From Previous Backers". Xconomy.
  18. ↑ Dan Primack (February 22, 2016). "Term Sheet - Monday, February 22". Fortune.
  19. ↑ Dennis, Amber Lee (10 May 2017). "Case Study: CauseSquare and NuoDB's Elastic SQL Database Partner for Non-Profit Generosity". Dataversity. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  20. ↑ David Ramel (January 17, 2017). "NuoDB 'Elastic SQL Database' Boosts AWS Functionality". AWS Insider.
  21. ↑ Andrew Pavlo, Matthew Aslett. "What's Really New with NewSQL?" (PDF). Sigmod Record.
  22. ↑ Alspach, Kyle. "Big data updates: Terascala, NuoDB." Boston Business Journal. September 4, 2012
  23. ↑ Gibbs, Mark. "NuoDB, a new approach to SQL databases." Network World. February 7, 2013
  24. ↑ Proctor, Seth. "Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1." InfoQ. July 12, 2013
  25. ↑ Darrow, Bob. "New-look database startup NuoDB gets $10M to scale up and out." Gigaom. July 9, 2012
  26. ↑ Darrow, Bob. "Boston is a database hub. Here are 5 startups to watch." Gigaom. March 2, 2012
  27. ↑ Kusnetzky, Dan. "NuoDB developer profile." ZDnet. July 30, 2012
  28. 1 2 "The Multi-Version Concurrent Database is Born." Dr. Dobb's World of Software. October 22, 2013
  29. ↑ Ryan Francis (January 23, 2017). "New products of the week 1.23.17". Network World.
  30. ↑ Darrow, Barb. "Upstart NuoDB paints picture of database nirvana for the cloud era." Gigaom. January 15, 2013
  31. ↑ Kanaracus, Chris. "NuoDB launches cloud-friendly database." ComputerWorld. January 15, 2013
  32. 1 2 3 Gibbs, Mark. "NuoDB, a new approach to SQL databases." ComputerWorld Techworld. February 7, 2013
  33. ↑ Walton, Zach. "NuoDB Officially Launches Its Cloud-Based Database." WebProNews. January 29, 2013
  34. ↑ Bell, Peter. "NuoDB Launches Scalable, Cloud Based, Relational Database." InfoQ. March 12, 2013
  35. ↑ Adrian Bridgwater (February 5, 2017). "IT Is Dead, Now There's Information...And Technology". Forbes.
  36. ↑ Eden, Whitney."New Product News - Nov. 15, 2012" Information Management. November 15, 2012
  37. ↑ Peter Cohan (July 11, 2014). "Can A 50-Person Startup Threaten Oracle, IBM, And Microsoft?". Forbes.
  38. ↑ Andrew Brust (May 8, 2013). "NuoDB has Microsoft SQL Server in its sights". ZDNet.
  39. ↑ Pinal, Dave. "SQL-NuoDB Releases 1.2 has Several SQL Enhancements." SQL Authority. August 8, 2013
  40. ↑ Francis, Ryan. "New products of the week." Network World. Nov. 10, 2014. Slide 20
  41. ↑ David Ramel (January 17, 2017). "NuoDB 'Elastic SQL Database' Boosts AWS Functionality". AWS Insider.
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