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NUODB 1.1 RELEASE DELIVERS POWERFUL NEW ENHANCEMENTS FOR MICROSOFT .NET AND AZURE

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New Release Offers Enhanced Scalability, Higher Performance and Improved User Productivity 

Cambridge, MA – May 8, 2013 – NuoDB, Inc., the pioneer in Cloud Data Management Systems (CDMS), announced the immediate availability of the NuoDB Starlings Release 1.1.

Based on customer feedback, the new release delivers user benefits in the following areas:

  • Microsoft enhancements – Developers can now build and deploy elastically scalable, high performance .NET applications for their on-premise and cloud environments using standard Microsoft tools and frameworks.
  • Performance and productivity enhancements – Users on all platforms will experience 33% increase in scale-out performance and 20% – 50% improvement in heavy workloads.
  • User experience improvements – Developers will experience enhanced productivity gains via the integrated DevCenter and NuoDB Console for faster access to relevant technical resources. There are also major improvements in database browsing and interactive query capabilities.

In addition, the NuoDB Starlings Release 1.1 delivers an advanced architecture for performing real-time operational analytics.  Users can use a single database for variable workloads that involves OLTP and real-time operational analytics.  With NuoDB, users no longer have to pull data out of their existing OLTP system into a separate database for real-time operational analytics.

This latest release is available for free download via the following link: www.nuodb.com/download

What’s New in Release 1.1

Microsoft Enhancements

  • 64 bit support for Windows Server, Windows 7 and 8 for high performance
  • Full support for Visual Studio 2012, LINQ and Entity Framework for a more integrated developer experience
  • .NET driver to avoid the common scalability and performance issues associated with traditional databases
  • Azure compatibility for running/deploying NuoDB easily in the cloud.

Productivity & Performance Improvements

  • 33% increase in scale-out performance
  • 20%-50% improvement for heavy workloads
  • Built-in schema browsing and querying for Integrated SQL development
  • Database demand-simulation tools, including an example eCommerce schema and configurable load scenarios for improved provisioning of both predictable and unpredictable web traffic.

Improved User Experience

  • New NuoDB DevCenter– a central, easy to use location for all NuoDB developer resources, now integrated with the NuoDB Console for faster access
  • SQL Explorer fully integrated into the NuoDB Console for browsing, creating, dropping and altering database tables without ever leaving the browser.

“Elastic scaling, high performance and the need for real time analytics are challenges customers are dealing with everyday in the datacenter and the cloud, and we have seen a real demand on Microsoft platforms,” stated Barry Morris, CEO and Co-Founder, NuoDB, Inc. “The NuoDB emergent architecture is the flexible foundation that allows Release 1.1 to offer customers the innovative, practical solutions they need to tackle these areas of concern.”

About the NuoDB Starlings release

The NuoDB Starlings cloud database features elastic scalability with high performance, SQL compliance and guaranteed ACID transactions. The release, first made generally available on January 15, 2013, eliminates the need for the complex database workarounds like clustering, performance tuning and sharding that are typically associated with bringing applications to the cloud.

“Over 6,500 customers are taking advantage of our emergent architecture.  People need NuoDB as a scalable backend for their web-scale applications, as a replacement for traditional RDBMS systems that have reached their limits, as a database solution when moving into the cloud, and for delivering operational analytics in data-driven business decisions. The Starlings 1.1 release of NuoDB is the next step for NuoDB in our continuous innovation to address these market requirements.”

About NuoDB

NuoDB, Inc., is a Cambridge, MA-based technology leader that provides the industry’s patented, elastically scalable Cloud Data Management System (CDMS). Unlike every other database, NuoDB is architected to scale out effortlessly on the cloud without compromising any of the features or guarantees of relational databases.

NuoDB customers include automotive after-market giant AutoZone, NorthPoint Solutions and other innovative companies.

NuoDB is available on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace.

NuoDB was launched in 2010 by industry-renowned database architect Jim Starkey and accomplished software CEO Barry Morris.  www.nuodb.com

 

1.1 RELEASE

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STRONG WINDOWS ENHANCEMENTS, BETTER PERFORMANCE, EASIER DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE! AND, YES, MORE!

Today we announced the immediate availability of the NuoDB Starlings Release 1.1.  The new release features .NET & Windows 64-bit support helping developers who wish to avoid the common scalability and performance issues associated with traditional databases.  And that’s not all.  We’ve addressed three areas of customer need.

The new release delivers user benefit in 3 key areas:

  • Microsoft 64-bit and .NET support
  • Substantial performance and productivity enhancements
  • User experience improvements.


What’s New in 1.1

Microsoft Enhancements

  • 64 bit support for Windows Server, Windows 7 and 8 for high performance
  • Full support for Visual Studio 2012, LINQ and Entity Framework for a more integrated developer experience
  • .NET driver to avoid the common scalability and performance issues associated with Microsoft SQL Server
  • Azure compatibility for running/deploying NuoDB easily in the cloud.

Productivity & Performance Improvements

  • 33% increase in scale-out performance
  • 20-50% improvement for heavy workloads
  • Built-in schema browsing and querying for Integrated SQL development
  • Database demand simulation tools, including a sample eCommerce schema and configurable load scenarios for improved provisioning of both predictable and unpredictable web traffic.

Improved User Experience

  • · New NuoDB DevCenter– a central, easy to use location for all NuoDB developer resources, now integrated with the NuoDB Console for faster access
  • · SQL Explorer fully integrated into the NuoDB Console for dropping and creating web tables without ever leaving the browser.


What next?

Download your free version of Release 1.1 today!

 

NuoDB Named “Cool Vendor” by Gartner

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NuoDB Only Database Solution Cited in the Cool Vendor Information Infrastructure Report

Cambridge, Massachusetts – May 1, 2013  — NuoDB, Inc., the pioneer in Cloud Data Management System (CDMS), announced today that it has been named as one of only five “Cool Vendors in Information Infrastructure and Big Data 2013″ by Gartner, Inc., the leading industry analyst firm.

Each year, Gartner identifies new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting these innovative vendors and their products and services.

For this report, Gartner selected companies that offer “capabilities that enable information producers and consumers to describe, organize, share, integrate and govern any type of data and content, anytime, anywhere.” NuoDB was specifically recognized as the first of a new breed of database management system that combines the benefits of ACID SQL capabilities with the ability to scale elastically and easily.

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“In a market with dozens of new offerings our being named by Gartner as the single representative of next generation databases is extremely significant,” stated Barry Morris, CEO and Co-Founder of NuoDB, Inc.

Morris continued, “The Gartner report clearly documents that Big Data and scalable database infrastructure are complex and difficult problems for today’s IT departments to tackle.  Many vendors offer solutions for these challenges however NuoDB’s emergent architecture is the only way customers can build truly distributed database systems that scale to meet web-scale requirements.  We are honored to be the recognized by Gartner for our innovative and practical approach to solving these challenges.”

About the NuoDB Starlings release

The NuoDB Starlings cloud database delivers elastic scalability with high performance, SQL compliance and guaranteed ACID transactions. The release eliminates the need for the complex database actions such as clustering, performance tuning, sharding and replication that are typically associated with bringing applications to the cloud.

About NuoDB

NuoDB, Inc., is a Cambridge, MA-based technology leader that provides the industry’s patented, elastically scalable Cloud Data Management System (CDMS). Named a Gartner 2013 “Cool Vendor,” NuoDB is architected to scale out effortlessly in the cloud without compromising any of the features or guarantees of relational databases.

NuoDB customers include automotive after-market giant AutoZone, NorthPoint Solutions and other innovative companies.

NuoDB was launched in 2010 by industry-renowned database architect Jim Starkey and accomplished software CEO Barry Morris.  www.nuodb.com

LEADING NEXTGEN DATABASE COMPANIES TO DEBATE DATABASE FUTURES IN NYC

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New York City Summit Brings Together Visionary Leaders From Three Leading Database Companies

Cambridge, MA – April 23, 2013 – NuoDB, Inc., the pioneer in Cloud Data Management Systems (CDMS), announced today they are bringing together visionary executives from leading database companies NuoDB, MongoDB and Couchbase in an executive summit to discuss “The future of 21st Century Databases”.

The roundtable will feature:

  • Barry Morris, Co-Founder and CEO, NuoDB, Inc.,
  • Bob Wiederhold, President and CEO, Couchbase
  • Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-Founder, 10gen/MongoDB

It will be held on May 1, 2013, 7-9 PM (EDT) at AOL, 770 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York City.

Registration is required and can be found here.

Panel to tackle range of topics

The panel will describe their unique perspectives on the database landscape and how databases are evolving to meet the next generation challenges of mobile, cloud and social applications.  Topics will include performance, scalability, SQL and NoSQL, sharding, caching, multi-tenancy and geo-distribution of databases.

The panel will also touch upon the common attributes among these next generation database systems as well as areas in which their capabilities differ.  NuoDB and NoSQL databases are similar in their goals of addressing performance, highly-parallel scalability, schema-flexibility and ease of use. However the products differ significantly in terms of such things as SQL support, (ACID) transactions, geo-distribution and security.

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“It’s time for the leaders in 21st century database systems to provide guidance to users on where the industry is going,” stated Barry Morris, CEO and Co-Founder of NuoDB. “The 1980s database systems have served the industry well for three decades, but systems designers acknowledge that these older solutions struggle with the demands of modern data management.  All database stakeholders, from developers to CIOs, are wondering what is next.  A good way to answer that is to get the thought leaders into a room to provide their contrasting perspectives.”

About the NuoDB Starlings release

The NuoDB Starlings release features elastic scalability with high performance, SQL compliance and guaranteed ACID transactions. The release, first made generally available on January 15, 2013, eliminates the need for the complex database workarounds that are typically associated with bringing applications to the cloud such as clustering, performance tuning and sharding.

About NuoDB

NuoDB, Inc., is a Cambridge, MA-based technology leader that provides the industry’s patented, elastically scalable Cloud Data Management System (CDMS). Unlike every other database, NuoDB is architected to scale out effortlessly on the cloud without compromising any of the features or guarantees of relational databases.

NuoDB customers include automotive after-market giant AutoZone, NorthPoint Solutions and numerous other innovative companies.

NuoDB was launched in 2010 by industry-renowned database architect Jim Starkey and accomplished software CEO Barry Morris.

NuoDB Demonstrates 72,000 “Hyper Pluggable” Databases Running on a Single HP Moonshot System

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NuoDB’s Patent-Pending Database Hibernation & Bursting Capabilities Reduce Database Server Costs by 90%

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwired – Apr 17, 2013) – NuoDB, Inc., the pioneer in cloud databases, announced today the availability of a demonstration documenting the breakthrough performance of their NuoDB Starlings release on the high density, energy efficient HP Moonshot system. In addition, the company announced the filing of patents for two related features.

The combination of NuoDB Starlings and Moonshot will increase database density, allowing customers to deploy tens of thousands of databases on a single HP Moonshot Server. This deployment will reduce a customer’s total cost of hardware, maintenance and power consumption by 90%.

Working with the HP Discovery Lab, as an HP Innovation Partner, NuoDB was able to run 72,000 instances of the NuoDB Cloud database on a fully loaded Moonshot system with 45 cartridges.

Patent Application Submitted For Innovative Hibernation and Database Bursting Capabilities
A NuoDB database is made up of an agile collection of processes making it very inexpensive to start or stop a database. A NuoDB implementation is also able to monitor server capacity and understand what’s going on inside each database. As a result, if a particular database has been idle long enough that something else could use the associated resources more effectively; NuoDB can shut down the inactive databases — putting it into hibernation mode — to make way for other operating databases.

When an SQL client needs to access the database that’s been shut off, the NuoDB product simply re-starts it. This mechanism has been submitted for a United States Patent for hibernating and waking a database. This on-demand resource management means that while there are some number of databases actively running, NuoDB can support a much larger number of total instances. This innovative new ability is particularly useful for applications that exhibit a long-tail access pattern. (For more information on long-tail access patterns, click on this link: http://www.thelongtail.com/about.html)

Using this new hibernation capability, NuoDB was able to run 7,200 simultaneous active databases and 72,000 total databases on a single 4.3u Moonshot System.

The company has also filed a patent for a new database bursting feature. This capability is used when a single database becomes popular and begins to take up too many resources on a single server. If a customer provisions another server in response, separate from the Moonshot System, then the NuoDB CDMS will temporarily “burst” a high-activity database to that new host until activity dies down. The bursting function occurs automatically, quickly, and provides users with on-demand capacity when a database is suddenly “hot” with a flood of transactions.

Demonstration Available
A brief demonstration of NuoDB running on Moonshot is available here. Interested parties can also request more information or sign up for live demo at the following link: http://info.nuodb.com/hyper-pluggable-database-demo-moonshot

The new hibernation and bursting features will be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2013.

“We’ve shown how NuoDB can scale a single database to over 1 million transactions per second on 32 machines. For this new generation of systems, we took a different approach. Rather than make a single database scale to large volume, we wanted to take advantage of Moonshot-type architecture and see how many individual, smaller databases we could support simultaneously. We took a fully-configured HP Project Moonshot System and turned it into a high-density, low-power, easy to manage hosting appliance,” stated Barry Morris, CEO and Co-Founder of NuoDB.

“Continuing our pioneering innovations in cloud databases, we are working to offer this record-breaking degree of database density and unique hibernation and bursting abilities on future high density systems from other vendors as well,” continued Morris.

About the NuoDB Starlings release
The NuoDB Starlings release features elastic scalability with high performance, SQL compliance and guaranteed ACID transactions. The release, first made generally available on January 15, 2013, eliminates the need for the complex database workarounds that are typically associated with bringing applications to the cloud such as clustering, performance tuning and sharding.

About NuoDB
NuoDB, Inc., is a Cambridge, MA-based technology leader that provides the industry’s patented, elastically scalable Cloud Data Management System (CDMS). Unlike every other database, NuoDB is architected to scale out effortlessly on the cloud without compromising any of the features or guarantees of relational databases.

NuoDB customers include automotive after-market giant AutoZone, NorthPoint Solutions and numerous other innovative companies.

NuoDB was launched in 2010 by industry-renowned database architect Jim Starkey and accomplished software CEO Barry Morris.