TransLattice
{{Short description|Database software company}}
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| fate = Appears to have gone defunct sometime around 2016
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| foundation = 2007
| founder = Frank Huerta
| defunct = {{End date|2016}}
| location_city = Santa Clara, California
| location_country = United States
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| key_people = Frank Huerta, Founder & CEO
Michael Lyle, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder
Louise Funke, Vice President of Marketing
Melissa Conaulty, Vice President of Strategic Alliances
| industry = Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
| products = TransLattice Elastic Database (TED)
TransLattice Application Platform (TAP)
TransLattice Application Kit (TAK)
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TransLattice was a software company based in Santa Clara, California that operated from 2007 to around 2016. It geographically distributed databases and applications for enterprise, cloud, and hybrid environments. TransLattice offered a NewSQL database and an application platform, and was responsible for making Postgres-XL open source.
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. TransLattice was 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. [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/24/translattice_elastic_database_postgres/ "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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/translattice_stormdb_acquisition/|title=TransLattice gobbles StormDB upstart for Postgres threesome|last=Clark|first=Jack|date=10 October 2013|website=The Register}}{{Cite web|last=Harris|first=Derrick|date=2013-10-09|title=Cloud database consolidation as TransLattice buys StormDB|url=https://gigaom.com/2013/10/09/cloud-database-consolidation-as-translattice-buys-stormdb/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009160805/http://gigaom.com/2013/10/09/cloud-database-consolidation-as-translattice-buys-stormdb/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 9, 2013|access-date=2020-10-27|website=gigaom.com|language=en-US}} StormDB's clustered PostgreSQL fork was open sourced in 2014 under the name Postgres-XL.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/13/translattice_postgres_xl/|title='Behold my creation: Postgres-XL' bellows TransLattice|last=Clark|first=Jack|date=13 May 2014|website=The Register}}
The company appears to have gone defunct somewhere between 2014 and 2016, with the website hosting expiring in 2016 and updates on the company's Twitter page ceasing in 2014,{{Cite web |title=TransLattice, Inc. / Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/TransLattice |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=Twitter}} due to being unable to build a business around their TransLattice Elastic Database management system.{{Cite web |last=Aslett |first=Matt |date=3 June 2021 |title=Ten years of NewSQL: Back to the future of distributed relational databases |url=https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/blog/ten-years-of-newsql-back-to-the-future-of-distributed-relational-databases |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=S&P Global Market Intelligence}} Frank Huerta, the CEO, now works at a different company named Curtail.{{Cite web |title=About Curtail |url=https://www.curtail.com/about/ |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=Curtail, Inc.}}
Technology
TransLattice specialized in distributed databases and application platforms for enterprise and cloud IT systems.Preimesberger, Chris. [http://www.eweek.com/storage-station/geography-plays-key-role-in-translattice-elastic-database.html/ "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. [https://venturebeat.com/2012/07/24/translattice-geographically-distributed-database/ "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, enables the building of a "highly available, fault tolerant data fabric {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} multiple nodes that can be located anywhere in the world". The TransLattice database is fully SQL/ACID-compliant.Matchett, Mike. [http://tanejagroup.com/news/blog/blog-cloud/a-sql-sequel-called-ted-the-distributed-translattice-elastic-database/ "A SQL Sequel Called TED - the Distributed TransLattice Elastic Database."] Taneja Blog. Aug. 7, 2012 TED operates as "a cohesive, single database".
{{cite news
| last1 = Crosman
| first1 = Penny
| title = TransLattice Pitches 'Elastic' Database to Give Global View of Customer Information
| url = http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/177_142/translattice-pitches-elastic-database-global-view-1051209-1.html?zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1/
| department = Bank Technology News
| newspaper = American Banker
| publisher = SourceMedia
| date = 2012-07-24
| issn = 0002-7561
| access-date = 2015-10-01
| quote = According to TransLattice, the Elastic Database it's announcing today is the first geographically distributed SQL database. 'We've put together a system that's able to combine resources and nodes from different regions containing different data into a cohesive, single database,' says CTO Mike Lyle.
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TransLattice provided the world's first geographically-distributed relational database management system (RDBMS) to deploy on multiple public-cloud-provider networks at the same time, as well as on virtual machines, physical hardware or any combination thereof.
Gallagher, Matt. [http://www.redherring.com/global/translattice-becomes-first-database-system-to-mixmatch-multiple-clouds/ "TransLattice Becomes First Database System to Mix/Match Multiple Clouds."] Red Herring. Feb. 25, 2013