TransLattice is a software company based in Santa Clara, California. It geographically distributes databases and applications for enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments. TransLattice offers a
NewSQL database and an application platform.
History
TransLattice was founded in 2007 and officially launched in 2010. The company co-founders are Frank Huerta, CEO, Mike Lyle, Executive VP of Engineering and Robert Geiger, who previously worked together at
Recourse Technologies
Recourse Technologies, Inc., was a network security company based in Redwood City, California. Founded by Frank Huerta and Michael Lyle in February 1999, it was later acquired by Symantec on July 17, 2002, for US$135 million.
Recourse's p ...
. TransLattice is based in Santa Clara, California.
In August 2008 the company received $9.5 million in series A funding from DCM, an early stage capital venture funding company.
[Morgan, Timothy]
"Postgres-on-steroids wields bare metal in Oracle, IBM skirmish."
The Register. Jul. 24, 2012
In 2013, TransLattice acquired StormDB, a
database-as-a-service startup. StormDB's clustered
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL (, ), also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. It was originally named POSTGRES, referring to its origins as a successor to the In ...
fork was open sourced in 2014 under the name
Postgres-XL.
Technology
TransLattice specializes in
distributed databases and
application platform
A computing platform or digital platform is an environment in which a piece of software is executed. It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser and associated application programming interfaces, or other underlying so ...
s for enterprise and cloud
IT systems.
[Preimesberger, Chris]
"Geography Plays Key Role in TransLattice Elastic Database."
eWeek. Aug. 2, 2012 The company has developed a geographically-distributed computing-architecture that allows a single database to run on multiple
nodes located anywhere.
[Koetsier, John]
"12 nodes, 5 continents, 1 database: TransLattice intros world’s first geographically distributed database."
Venture Beat. Jul 24, 2012
The TransLattice Elastic Database (TED), a
NewSQL database management system
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases span ...
, enables the building of a "highly available, fault tolerant
data fabric
The Internet of Military Things (IoMT) is a class of Internet of things for combat operations and warfare. It is a complex network of interconnected entities, or "things", in the military domain that continually communicate with each other to coord ...
multiple nodes that can be located anywhere in the world".
[ The TransLattice database is fully SQL/ ACID-compliant.][Matchett, Mike]
"A SQL Sequel Called TED - the Distributed TransLattice Elastic Database."
Taneja Blog. Aug. 7, 2012 TED operates as "a cohesive, single database".[
]
TransLattice provided the world's first geographically-distributed relational database management system
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 relati ...
(RDBMS) to deploy on multiple public-cloud-provider networks at the same time, as well as on virtual machine
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization/ emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized har ...
s, physical hardware or any combination thereof.[
Gallagher, Matt]
"TransLattice Becomes First Database System to Mix/Match Multiple Clouds."
Red Herring. Feb. 25, 2013
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References
Database companies
Software companies based in California
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Software companies of the United States