NuoDB

In 2008, the firm was founded by Barry S. Morris and Jim Starkey, 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. [http://gigaom.com/cloud/database-superstar-jim-starkey-touts-nuodbs-new-patent/ "Database superstar Jim Starkey touts NuoDB's new patent."] Gigaom. August 8, 2012Alspach, Kyle. [http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2012/07/oracle-competitor-nuodb-database.html?page=all "NuoDB: We've invented the database of the future."] Boston Business Journal. July 30, 2012 NuoDB patented its "elastically scalable database", filing in March 2011 and receiving approval only 15 months later (July 2012).[http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Manchester.INCI.&s2=Starkey.INNM.&OS=IC/Manchester+AND+IN/Starkey&RS=IC/Manchester+AND+IN/Starkey United States Patent 8,224,860 approved July 17, 2012.] In 2012, the firm raised $12 million in venture capital funds.Alspach, Kyle. [http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2012/07/database-startup-nuodb-names-backers.html?page=all "Database startup NuoDB names backers in $10M roundup."] Boston Business Journal. July 9, 2012

In 2013, Gartner listed NuoDB as a niche player in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.Feinberg, Donald. Adrian, Merv. Heudecker, Nick. [https://www.gartner.com/doc/2610218 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.[http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2014/10/bbj-and-mht-name-2014s-innovation-all-stars.html "BBJ and MHT name 2014's Innovation All-Stars."] Boston Business Journal. Oct. 17, 2014

In February 2014, NuoDB announced an extension to its Series B funding round led by Dassault Systèmes. 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. [http://virtualization.sys-con.com/node/2988534 "NuoDB Announces New Round of Investment."] February 27, 2014{{cite web| url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/26/nuodb-raises-14-2m-round-led-by-dassault-systemes-for-its-distributed-database-management-system/| title=NuoDB Raises $14.2M Round Led By Dassault Systèmes For Its Distributed Database Management System| date=February 26, 2014| author=Frederic Lardinois| publisher=Tech Crunch}}{{cite web| url=https://venturebeat.com/2014/02/26/database-startup-nuodb-raises-14-2m-to-capture-your-companys-most-critical-data/| title=Database startup NuoDB raises $14.2M to capture your company's most critical data| author=Jordan Novet| date=February 26, 2014| publisher=VentureBeat}}

In 2015, Gartner again listed NuoDB, this time as a Visionary in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems.Feinberg, Donald. Adrian, Merv. Heudecker, Nick. Ronthal, Adam M. Palanca, Terilyn [https://www.gartner.com/doc/3147919/magic-quadrant-operational-database-management Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems 2015.] Gartner. October 12, 2015 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.{{cite web| url=http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2015/07/22/database-startup-nuodb-gets-new-ceo-looks-to-grow-faster/| title=Database Startup NuoDB Gets New CEO, Looks to Grow Faster| author=Gregory T. Huang| date=July 22, 2015| publisher=Xconomy}}{{cite web| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2015/07/vc-backed-tech-firm-tackles-40b-database.html| title=VC-backed tech firm tackles $40B database tech market with new CEO| date=July 29, 2015| publisher=Boston Business Journal| author=Sara Castellanos}} 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.{{cite web| url=http://www.eweek.com/database/nuodb-delivers-sql-enhancements-in-release-2.5.html| title=NuoDB Delivers SQL Enhancements in Release 2.5| author=Darryl K. Taft| date=September 13, 2016| publisher=eWeek}}{{cite web| url=http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2016/02/22/database-startup-nuodb-grabs-17m-from-previous-backers/| title=Database Startup NuoDB Grabs $17M From Previous Backers| author=Jeff Engel| date=February 22, 2016| publisher=Xconomy}}{{cite web| url=http://fortune.com/2016/02/22/term-sheet-monday-february-22/| title=Term Sheet - Monday, February 22| author=Dan Primack| date=February 22, 2016| publisher=Fortune}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dataversity.net/case-study-causesquare-nuodbs-elastic-sql-database-partner-non-profit-generosity/|title=Case Study: CauseSquare and NuoDB's Elastic SQL Database Partner for Non-Profit Generosity|author=Dennis, Amber Lee|date=10 May 2017|publisher=Dataversity| accessdate=August 3, 2017}}

In 2018, NuoDB became available on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/08/01/digital-transformation-and-the-database/#cae4dd637d26 |title=Digital Transformation And The Database |last=Kassam |first=Ariff |date=1 Aug 2019 |website=Forbes |publisher= |access-date=21 Feb 2020 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ibms-red-hat-deal-nuodb-operator-now-has-red-hat-openshift-operator-certification-krita-420 |title=IBM's Red Hat Deal, NuoDB Operator Now Has Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification, Krita 4.2.0 Alpha Released, Elive 3.0 Update, UBports Announces Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 and Fedora Kernel 5.1 Test Week Starts Monday |last=Franklin |first=Jill |date=9 May 2019|website=Linux Journal |publisher=Linux Journal, LLC |access-date=22 Feb 2020 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.dataversity.net/nuodb-re-defines-sql-database-launches-container-native-features/ |title=NuoDB Re-Defines the SQL Database, Launches Container-Native Features |last= Guess|first=A.R. |date=12 Oct 2018 |website=dataversity.net |publisher=Dataversity Education, LLC |access-date=22 Feb 2020 |quote=}} One year later, NuoDB added Kubernetes availability in pursuit of a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic, multi-cloud strategy.{{cite web |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/nuodb-v4-nosql/ |title=Distributed SQL Database NuoDB 4.0 Supports Kubernetes Operator and Indexing Improvements |last=Penchikala |first=Srini |date=7 Oct 2019 |website=InfoQ |publisher=C4Media, Inc. |access-date=1 Feb 2020 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://insidebigdata.com/2019/08/04/nuodb-4-0-expands-cloud-native-and-cloud-agnostic-capabilities-of-distributed-sql-database/ |title=NuoDB 4.0 Expands Cloud-native and Cloud-agnostic Capabilities of Distributed SQL Database |author=|date=4 Aug 2019 |website= Inside Big Data|access-date=31 Jan 2020 |quote=}} In 2019, Temenos AG partnered with NuoDB, promoting scalability and IT service continuity.{{cite web |url=https://www.fintech.finance/01-news/temenos-a-retrospective-look-at-2019-and-whats-to-come-in-2020/ |title=Temenos: A Retrospective look at 2019 and what's to come in 2020 |author= |date= 17 Dec 2019|website=Fintech Finance |publisher= |access-date=1 Mar 2020|quote=}}

NuoDB was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in December 2020.{{Cite news |title= Dassault Systèmes to Acquire Cambridge-based Startup |url= https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/11/25/dassault-syst-mes-to-acquire-cambridge.html |work= Boston Business Journal |date= November 25, 2020 }}

SQL compliant, NuoDB's database technology is classified as "NewSQL".{{cite web| url=https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/1606/pdfs/07_forum_Pavlo.pdf| title=What's Really New with NewSQL?| author=Andrew Pavlo, Matthew Aslett| publisher=Sigmod Record}} It has a distributed object architecture that works in the cloud,Alspach, Kyle. [http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2012/09/big-data-updates-terascala-nuodb.html "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.{{cite web| last=Gibbs|first= Mark |url=http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2013/021113-gearhead.html |title=NuoDB, a new approach to SQL databases| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234105/http://www.techworld.com.au/article/453194/nuodb_new_approach_sql_databases/|archive-date=3 March 2016|website=TechWorld|date=7 Feb 2013|access-date=}}Network World. February 7, 2013Proctor, Seth. [http://www.infoq.com/articles/nuodb-architecture-1 "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 bottlenecks of data.Darrow, Bob. [http://gigaom.com/cloud/new-look-database-startup-nuodb-gets-10m-to-scale-up-and-out/ "New-look database startup NuoDB gets $10M to scale up and out."] Gigaom. July 9, 2012 It uses peer-to-peer messaging to route tasks to nodes,Darrow, Bob. [http://gigaom.com/cloud/five-boston-database-startups-to-watch/ "Boston is a database hub. Here are 5 startups to watch."] Gigaom. March 2, 2012 and it is ACID compliant.Kusnetzky, Dan. [https://www.zdnet.com/article/nuodb-developer-profile/ "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.[http://www.drdobbs.com/database/the-multi-version-concurrent-database-is/240162963?__hstc=182829625.b289804afa8656a6efad2f7266538639.1365614703880.1381936795108.1382472384760.164&__hssc=182829625.5.1382472384760&__hsfp=4078673480 "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.{{cite web| url=http://www.networkworld.com/article/3159727/cloud-computing/new-products-of-the-week-1-23-17.html#slide10| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125203601/http://www.networkworld.com/article/3159727/cloud-computing/new-products-of-the-week-1-23-17.html?#slide10| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 25, 2017| title=New products of the week 1.23.17| author=Ryan Francis| date=January 23, 2017| publisher=Network World}} 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 Edgar F. Codd's 12 rules for relational databases.Darrow, Barb. [http://gigaom.com/2013/01/15/upstart-nuodb-paints-picture-of-database-nirvana-for-the-cloud-era/ "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. [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9235867/NuoDB_launches_cloud_friendly_database "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. [http://www.webpronews.com/nuodb-officially-launches-its-cloud-based-database-2013-01 "NuoDB Officially Launches Its Cloud-Based Database."] WebProNews. January 29, 2013Bell, Peter. [http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/03/nuodb "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.{{cite web| url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2017/02/05/it-is-dead-now-theres-information-and-technology/2/#6f2e8fdd7c28| title=IT Is Dead, Now There's Information...And Technology| author=Adrian Bridgwater| date=February 5, 2017| work=Forbes}}

With the release of version 3.0 (2017), NuoDB expanded its ecosystem beyond Amazon Web Services, adding Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat environments and expanded multi-availability zone deployment for hybrid or multi-cloud environments.{{cite web |url=https://hostingjournalist.com/cloud-hosting/nuodb-3-0-release-adds-google-cloud-microsoft-azure-and-red-hat-support/ |title=NuoDB 3.0 Release Adds Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat Support |author= |date=7 Sep 2017 |website=hostingjournalist.com |publisher= |access-date=1 Mar 2020 |quote=}} NuoDB Operator achieved Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification in 2019.{{cite web |url=https://blog.openshift.com/partner-spotlight-nuodb/ |title=Partner Spotlight: NuoDB |last=Dobies|first=Jason|date=16 Jul 2018 |website=Red Hat |access-date=6 Mar 2020 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.cimdata.com/en/industry-summary-articles/item/11982-new-kubernetes-operatorhub-for-red-hat-openshift-to-enable-hybrid-cloud-flexibility-for-enterprises |title= New Kubernetes OperatorHub for Red Hat OpenShift to enable hybrid cloud flexibility for enterprises|author= |date=8 May 2019 |website=cimdata.com |publisher=CIM data |access-date=5 Mar 2020 |quote=}} 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.

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