NuoDB is a cloud-native

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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

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, and

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History

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

Jim Starkey Jim Starkey (born January 6, 1949 in Illinois) is a database architect responsible for developing InterBase, the first relational database to support multi-versioning,Babcock, Charles"MySQL Database to Get Replication Monitoring, Multiversioning ...

, 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

patented A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...

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

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

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

Gartner Gartner, Inc is a technological research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut that conducts research on technology and shares this research both through private consulting as well as executive programs and conferences. Its clients ...

listed NuoDB as a niche player in its

Magic Quadrant Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a series of market research reports published by IT consulting firm Gartner that rely on proprietary qualitative data analysis methods to demonstrate market trends, such as direction, maturity and participants. Their anal ...

for

Operational Database Operational database management systems (also referred to as OLTP On Line Transaction Processing databases), are used to update data in real-time. These types of databases allow users to do more than simply view archived data. Operational databa ...

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

Series B A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among the ...

funding round led by

. The round added $14.2 million to the company's funding.

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Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is an American software and web focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. Its founders include John Hummer and Ann Winblad. The firm was an early investor in Napster, the first popular file ...

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

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

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. In 2018, NuoDB became available on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. One year later, NuoDB added

Kubernetes Kubernetes (, commonly stylized as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Google originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains ...

availability in pursuit of a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic, multi-cloud strategy. In 2019,

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partnered with NuoDB, promoting

scalability Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work by adding resources to the system. In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that a company can increase sales given increased resources. For example, a ...

and

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. NuoDB was acquired by

in December 2020.

Technology

SQL compliant, NuoDB's database technology is classified as "

NewSQL NewSQL is a class of 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 traditional database system. Many e ...

". 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 Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work by adding resources to the system. In an economic context, a scalable business model implies that a company can increase sales given increased resources. For example, a ...

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

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. 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

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer n ...

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

ACID In computer science, ACID ( atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps. In the context of databases, a sequ ...

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

relational databases A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relation ...

.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

Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...

, adding

Google Cloud Google Cloud Platform offers numerous integrated cloud-computing services, including compute, network, and storage. Products Past and present products under the Google Cloud platform include: Current * Google Cloud Datastore, a NoSQL databa ...

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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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