NuoDB’s Distributed Pluggable Cloud Database

Developers who are already familiar with relational-database and intend to work in a cloud computing environment like Amazon Web Services are likely to find NuoDB's technology interesting and are likely to learn that it solves many scalability and high availability issues.

Developers who are already familiar with relational-database and intend to work in a cloud computing environment like Amazon Web Services are likely to find NuoDB's technology interesting and are likely to learn that it solves many scalability and high availability issues. Dan Kusnetzky, for ZDNet Virtually Speaking July 2012.

In the evolution of cloud databases we are at an inflection point. Managing Big Data: high volume, highly volatile data, and/or high velocity data is both complex and a business necessity.

NuoDB cloud database is a complete re-think of relational databases to address those needs and target an elastic cloud of computers rather than a single computer system.

Before NuoDB, every relational database had been built on a synchronous, centralized client/server architecture that is incompatible with the notion of elastic scalability in the cloud. As a result, scaling a SQL database typically requires tedious and expensive database design and administration involving sharding, caching, and performance tuning.

At NuoDB we started from scratch, throwing out all but the top most layer of traditional RDBMS architecture - namely SQL and ACID transactions. Below that we've innovated, not just iterated or retrofitted an existing solution. What we’ve done is to create an entirely new manner of Cloud Data Management System (CDMS) based on a distributed, asynchronous architecture.

First conceived by industry-renowned database architect and innovator Jim Starkey in 2008, who was later joined by enterprise software CEO Barry Morris, NuoDB was created for the purpose of redefining cloud databases for 21st century requirements.

NuoDB is a new class of cloud database based on a patented Emergent Architecture for a new class of datacenter. The NuoDB team is unified around a common cause and growth strategy: powering emergent databases for optimal performance in cloud computing environments.

Though thoroughly able to also run on premise, the NuoDB architecture was specifically designed with the elastic characteristics of cloud computing in mind.  The key benefit of the cloud is its ability to be dynamically provisioned or de-provisioned, based workload demand so NuoDB set out to create a cloud database that easily scales out and back in with minimal hardware and administration.  Just like the cloud itself.

Here’s how the NuoDB cloud database works.  It is a patented, elastically scalable, SQL database built for decentralized computing resources.  It offers the best of SQL and 100% ACID, guarantees without any of the things you don’t like, e.g., complex database administration tasks involving sharding, caching clustering and performance tuning).

The result is a brand new kind of database that’s optimized to run and scale on the cloud. Built for you, modernized in the new age.

NuoDB has the same syntax and the same interfaces you already know how to program and works out of the box with all of your applications. And of course, you can rely on NuoDB to provide 100% ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, and Durable) transactions.

When you look "Under The Hood” of NuoDB, you’ll find a totally different approach to the SQL database, but to your developers and your applications, NuoDB looks and acts just like any other SQL database.

At last, you can run your web-scale applications on the cloud without worrying about how the database is going to grow when your business expands or when traffic spikes for your application. You can focus on making your application rock and making your business grow, without having to learn the tribal secrets of database tuning.

NuoDB is the pioneer in providing a true SQL cloud database, pluggable database and it comes in three editions, perfect for development, small deployments or enterprise clients. Try it for free today.

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