Clusterpoint is a European software technology company developing and supporting the Clusterpoint database management system platform. The company was founded by software engineers, and is venture capital backed. For most of its history Clusterpoint was servicing business customers as an

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vendor.

Clusterpoint database

Clusterpoint is a schema-free

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. Examples are where SQL

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data is used in combination with an

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engine to address performance and scalability needs of web and mobile applications, or where

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and

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tools such as

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

General features

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

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format using open API, for instance, Python API or JavaScript 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

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and

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. Clusterpoint database software can be compiled on other

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. * 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 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clusterpoint Proprietary database management systems Document-oriented databases XML databases Distributed computing architecture NoSQL XML Database-related software for Linux