NuoDB: Scalable Database Solutions for Seamless User Experience

Hosting providers and large enterprises have thousands of databases that demand efficient management and deployment. These enterprises often face serious challenges coping with application performance, overcoming network latency, keeping costs under control and gaining operational intelligence in real-time. NuoDB is addressing these challenges by providing a NewSQL solution that can provide, manage, and monitor multiple applications from a single, browser based user interface. Launched in 2010—by industry-renowned database architect, Jim Starkey and accomplished software expert and leader in SQL technology, Barry Morris—NuoDB provides a unique combination of scale-out performance, zero downtime and geo-distributed data management. “It’s an operational DBMS to handle transactions, interactions, and observations anywhere,” begins Barry Morris, Co-Founder and Executive of NuoDB.

The NuoDB database is SQL compliant and has been called NewSQL. It has a distributed object architecture that works in the cloud—when a new server is added in order to scale-up the database, the database runs faster. “The database distributes tasks amongst several processors to avoid bottlenecks of data,” says Morris. It scales out without sharding. “It uses peer-to-peer messaging to route tasks to nodes,” adds Morris.

NuoDB’s distributed three-tier architecture is the foundation for scale-out performance. The database uses a tiered approach— comprising multiple, redundant tiers of transaction engines (TE) and storage managers (SM). It decouples management, transactions and storage so that each tier can scale a single, logical database elastically. It scales linearly to improve transactions per second performance and handle both concurrency and data volume. NuoDB scales out and in by simply adding or removing processes. 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.