NuoDB is a cloud-native distributed SQL database company based in

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. Founded in 2008 and incorporated in 2010, NuoDB technology has been used by

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, as well as

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and

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entities including UAE Exchange,

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, and Santander Bank.

History

In 2008, the firm was founded by Barry S. Morris and

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, with Morris serving as CEO until 2015. Originally called NimbusDB, the company name was changed to NuoDB in 2011. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts,Darrow, Bow
"Database superstar Jim Starkey touts NuoDB's new patent."
Gigaom. August 8, 2012Alspach, Kyle

Boston Business Journal. July 30, 2012 NuoDB

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its "''elastically scalable database''", filing in March 2011 and receiving approval only 15 months later (July 2012). In 2012, the firm raised $12 million in

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funds.Alspach, Kyle
"Database startup NuoDB names backers in $10M roundup."
Boston Business Journal. July 9, 2012 In 2013,

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listed NuoDB as a niche player in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.Feinberg, Donald. Adrian, Merv. Heudecker, Nick
Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.
Gartner. October 21, 2013 Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech named NuoDB as one of their 2014 Innovation All Stars. In February 2014, NuoDB announced an extension to its

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funding round led by

. 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.McMillan, Liz
"NuoDB Announces New Round of Investment."
February 27, 2014 In 2015,

again listed NuoDB, this time as a Visionary in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. 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. 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. In 2017, CauseSquare announced its partnership with NuoDB, selecting NuoDB as the official database for the mobile social engagement platform designed for the non-profit sector. In 2018, NuoDB became available on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. One year later, NuoDB added

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availability in pursuit of a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic, multi-cloud strategy. In 2019, Temenos AG partnered with NuoDB, promoting

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 ...

and IT service continuity. NuoDB was acquired by

in December 2020.

Technology

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compliant, NuoDB's database technology is classified as "

NewSQL NewSQL is a class of relational database management system, relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL systems for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads while maintaining the ACID guarantees of a t ...

". It has a

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architecture that works in the cloud,Alspach, Kyle
"Big data updates: Terascala, NuoDB."
Boston Business Journal. September 4, 2012 which means that when a new server is added in order to scale-out the database, the database runs faster.Proctor, Seth
"Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1."
InfoQ. July 12, 2013 The database scales out without sharding. The database distributes tasks amongst several processors to avoid

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s of data.Darrow, Bob
"New-look database startup NuoDB gets $10M to scale up and out."
Gigaom. July 9, 2012 It uses

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messaging to route tasks to nodes,Darrow, Bob
"Boston is a database hub. Here are 5 startups to watch."
Gigaom. March 2, 2012 and it is

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compliant.Kusnetzky, Dan
"NuoDB developer profile."
ZDnet. July 30, 2012 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."The Multi-Version Concurrent Database is Born."
Dr. Dobb's World of Software. October 22, 2013 The NuoDB 2.6 release added support for active-active database deployments across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones. Unlike other database systems, NuoDB makes it possible to expand its databases by adding more servers rather than simply replacing hardware. The system was designed to align with – and expand upon – IBM computer scientist

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's 12 rules for

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.Darrow, Barb
"Upstart NuoDB paints picture of database nirvana for the cloud era."
Gigaom. January 15, 2013 It adds the ability to run anywhere; elastic scalability; nonstop availability; a single, logical database; and distributed security.Kanaracus, Chris
"NuoDB launches cloud-friendly database."
ComputerWorld. January 15, 2013 It is available in a free developer version ("Community Edition") and an enterprise version.Walton, Zach
"NuoDB Officially Launches Its Cloud-Based Database."
WebProNews. January 29, 2013Bell, Peter
"NuoDB Launches Scalable, Cloud Based, Relational Database."
InfoQ. March 12, 2013 The Community Edition was expanded on January 31, 2017 to enable scale-out across multiple hosts. With the release of version 3.0 (2017), NuoDB expanded its ecosystem beyond

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, adding Google Cloud,

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, and

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environments and expanded multi-availability zone deployment for hybrid or multi-cloud environments. ''NuoDB Operator'' achieved ''Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification'' in 2019. Support for Kubernetes Operators, public clouds (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure), and cloud-native and cloud-agnostic capabilities was introduced in version 4.0 (2019), along with a new feature for assessing database health and performance.

Release history

References

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