Clusterpoint is a European software technology company founded in 2006 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company develops and supports the Clusterpoint database management system platform. The company was founded by software engineers Gints Ernestsons, Jurgis Orups, and Oskars Viksna, and is

venture capital Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in ...

backed. For most of its history Clusterpoint has been servicing business customers as an

enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information ...

vendor.

Clusterpoint database

Clusterpoint is a schema-free

document database A document-oriented database, or document store, is a computer program and data storage system designed for storing, retrieving and managing document-oriented information, also known as Semi-structured model, semi-structured data. Document-orie ...

. Examples are where

SQL Structured Query Language (SQL) (pronounced ''S-Q-L''; or alternatively as "sequel") is a domain-specific language used to manage data, especially in a relational database management system (RDBMS). It is particularly useful in handling s ...

RDBMS A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is a type of database management system that stores data in a structured forma ...

data is used in combination with an

enterprise search Enterprise search is software technology for searching data sources internal to a company, typically intranet and database content. The search is generally offered only to users internal to the company. Enterprise search can be contrasted with web ...

engine to address performance and

scalability Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work. One definition for software systems specifies that this may be done by adding resources to the system. In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that ...

needs of web and mobile applications, or where

big data Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...

and

analytics Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data, which also falls under and directly relates to the umbrella term, data sc ...

tools such as

Hadoop Apache Hadoop () is a collection of Open-source software, open-source software utilities for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. It provides a software framework for Clustered file system, distributed storage and processing of big data usin ...

might be needed due to sheer volume of data or large computing workloads.

General features

* Data is managed in open, cross-platform, industry-standard

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...

JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation, pronounced or ) is an open standard file format and electronic data interchange, data interchange format that uses Human-readable medium and data, human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consi ...

format using open API, for instance, Python API or

JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. Web browsers have ...

Node.js API * Data structure agnostic and type-rich database, handles variable data structure XML or JSON documents in a single database. Supports unstructured textual data, dates, numbers, meta-data (all

and

types) * Cross-platform support: binaries are available for

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD, one of the first fully functional and free Unix clones on affordable ...

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and

Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

. Clusterpoint database software can be compiled on other

operating systems An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

. * Multi-master cluster software architecture: any cluster node can serve as a master and run the management application * Horizontal database scalability: scales out from a single server to few thousands of servers networked into a cluster infrastructure

Clusterpoint products

* ''Clusterpoint DBMS'': Clustered NoSQL database, which uses the approach of multiple server system to spread load and increase performance. Clusterpoint database facilitates high parallelism of computing and distribution of data. * ''GOL: Big Data SIEM Analytics tool from Clusterpark'' Log, Events and Security Records Search and Analytics. * ''DigiBrowser: Quick SQL denormalization into NoSQL database'' imports multi-table SQL database into one Clusterpoint database using automagic denormalization. * ''NTSS: Network Traffic Surveillance System for Lawful Intercept'' High-speed capture, store, search and analysis of all Internet traffic for the corporate network.

References

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