NuoDB is the new NimbusDB – Database thought-leader changes its name
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Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) August 02, 2011NimbusDB, the thought leader in cloud database technology, announced today that the company has chosen to change its name to NuoDB. NuoDB is a NewSQL database system, a new category of databases designed to deliver horizontally scalable ACID transactions within the industry-standard SQL database model. “Nuo” derives from a Chinese word meaning “graceful."
“Our NuoDB product is in Beta release and as the company gets ready for delivery to production users it is appropriate to adopt a more distinctive identity that reflects the essence of our culture and product,” said Barry Morris, Founder and CEO of NuoDB, Inc. “Early users see it as a major advantage that they can gracefully add and delete computer nodes to a running NuoDB database, which is really one of the key thoughts of the cloud and our technology.”
The NuoDB product is an elastically scalable SQL database that supports ACID transactions.
Cloud computing is delivering enormous benefits to users that need computing services on a convenient utility model. Cloud computing does but make a substantial challenge for traditional database systems. Modern demands on databases are unprecedented and unpredictable both in terms of data volumes and user concurrency. Furthermore, the modern cloud data center is populated with small commodity machines connected by commodity networks, not large monolithic computers. What is needed is a new category of database systems that delivers elastic scalability on networks of commodity computers but that does not require an enterprise to change its business models, processes, tools, skill bases, etc.
“The NewSQL wave of database systems is a consequence of the failure of traditional, monolithic SQL systems,” added Barry Morris. “What has worked for the last 30 years will not work for the next 30 years, obviously. NuoDB paves the way by making a new vision of SQL databases that deliver increased or decreased performance as users assign different numbers of machines to a running database. No-one else can do that.”
On the topic of the new name, Morris noted, “We liked NimbusDB as a name. It refers to the cloud, and that is what we do. But if you Google ‘Nimbus’ you’ll get hits that include breweries, toothbrushes, motorcycles, Harry Potter’s flying broom, and a excellent number of technology companies. NuoDB, on the other hand, gets at who we are and what we do, and distinguishes the company. We’re here to build a long-term business and I want us to do so with a distinctive position in the market. ‘Nuo’ derives from ‘gracious’ in Chinese and in the end graciously scaling to meet demand is the heart of the cloud data challenge.”
About NuoDB:
NuoDB, Inc., the thought leader in cloud database technology, is a developer of NewSQL database software, based in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. The NuoDB product is a database system that uniquely delivers the database Holy Grail of 100% SQL, 100% ACID and 100% Elastically Scalable.
Traditional SQL databases cannot scale-out on distributed data center architectures and consequently modern data management demands have exceeded the capabilities of those systems. NuoDB is a radical rethink of the core design of a database system that allows database users and programmers to query the system as though it is a traditional SQL database, but scales gracefully on commodity equipment according to demand.
NuoDB was co-founded by Jim Starkey and Barry Morris. Jim Starkey is a 30 year database veteran, and one of the superstars of relational database technology. Barry Morris is the former CEO of IONA Technologies, the most successful Irish software company ever.
For more information and product downloads go to http://www.nuodb.com.
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