ScaleBase
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ScaleBase is a database software company located in Newton, Massachusetts, that works with next-gen apps to scale out relational databases by virtualizing a distributed database environment. The company serves enterprise clients, online gaming companies, digital media and social network providers.
History
Scalebase was founded in 2009 by Doron Levari. Ram Metser, formerly CEO of Guardium, a database security company acquired by IBM in 2009, was named as CEO in October of 2012.
To date, ScaleBase has received almost $15 million in venture capital through two rounds of funding. In 2012, the company closed a Series B round of $10.5 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners and its original investor, Cedar Fund.[1][2]
Technology
ScaleBase software (core product, released in August of 2011) enables apps to cost-effectively scale out to an infinite number of users with no disruption to the existing application infrastructure.[3]
ScaleBase is the only distributed database cluster that uses MySQL and InnoDB storage. This unique capability gives the scalability and availability benefits of distributed NoSQL database but with the data integrity strengths of a relational database.
- Two-Phase commit and roll-back
- ACID compliance
- SQL query model, including cross-node joins and aggregations
Data distribution, transactions, concurrency control, and two-phase commit are all 100% transparent, so applications continue to interact with the distributed database as if it were a single MySQL instance.
The software is used to automate the transformation of a single-instance MySQL database into a shared nothing distributed MySQL database. After initial data distribution, ScaleBase also provides the capability to monitor, manage and optimize (including rebalancing and redistributing) the distributed database environment to keep it tuned to meet the requirements of evolving application workloads.
"A major differentiator for ScaleBase is that distribution is policy-based and transparent. That is, with ScaleBase you can see and control the variables that impact the distribution policy."[4]
ScaleBase is described as a NewSQL database by 451 Research industry analyst, Matt Aslett. [5]
ScaleBase is certified to work with the following environments:
- MySQL Community and Enterprise editions 5.1, 5.5, 5.6
- AWS RDS MySQL 5.1, 5.5, 5.6
- Percona Server 5.5, 5.6
- Maria DB 10.0
ScaleBase is available to run in hybrid cloud (Amazon Web Services EC2 or RDS[6], Rackspace[7], IBM Cloud[8]) or self-hosted environments in two editions: Free and Enterprise.
Analysis Genie
ScaleBase also provides a free SaaS tool called Analysis Genie. The Analysis Genie delivers the best data distribution policy uniquely tuned for a specific application and database by analyzing its unique schema and queries.[9]
References
- ^ Reidy, Chris. "Newton data base company ScaleBase secures $10.5 million in funding". Boston Globe.
- ^ Empson, Rip. "ScaleBase Lands $10.5M To Help Mozilla, AppDynamics & Others Scale Their Databases". Tech Crunch.
- ^ Babcock, Charles. "ScaleBase Offers 'Get-Out-Of-Jail Card' To MySQL Users". Information Week.
- ^ http://www.bloorresearch.com/blog/im-blog/2014/10/distributing-mysql-databases/
- ^ https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=80923
- ^ https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=dcd0bdf4-6e0f-479b-8117-8d2029c8a7f2
- ^ https://cloudtools.rackspace.com/apps/1041#!overview
- ^ https://marketplace.ibmcloud.com/apps/1365?restoreSearch=true#!overview
- ^ http://www.scalebase.com/products/analysis-genie/