Overview

NuoDB is the first and only emergent database that is 100% SQL compliant, guarantees ACID transactions, and scales out/in elastically on decentralized computing resources in the cloud, on-premises, or both. It is highly resilient, requires minimal database administration, guarantees the integrity of transactions, and delivers high performance at web-scale with highly efficient and flexible resource utilization.

NuoDB is purpose-built for the cloud from the ground up on an emergent architecture - a shared nothing, asynchronous, peer-to-peer design that is ideal for modern data centers yet delivers the power, reliability and functionality of a traditional SQL database.

Need to Scale?

Your SQL database wasn’t designed to scale elastically in the cloud. However as your traffic grows, the database simply must scale. But it’s hard. SQL databases - every single one - were designed to run on the traditional client server systems that were architected back in the last century. They are all monolithic, synchronous, and centralized, which means that performing actions like creating a new record in the database, or modifying or deleting an existing record requires locking the database on the master node.

In order to scale these big iron beasts, you need to understand and implement all sorts of advanced design and administration strategies like: sharding, replication like master-slave, partitioning, clustering, more.  So instead of focusing your energy and expertise on building a differentiated application with a killer user experience, you are writing code to handle things like sharding. Read more on performance.

The era of the monolithic database is over.  Our founders, CEO Barry Morris and Jim Starkey, have completely redesigned the SQL database from the ground up to meet today’s technical business challenges. NuoDB is capable of supporting and dynamically scaling OLTP environments from low transactions per second (TPS) to tens of thousands of TPS without any downtime or changes to your database application. 

The NuoDB Approach: Emergence

NuoDB falls broadly into the category of NewSQL databases but is built unlike other databases on the principles of emergence, a totally new approach that eliminates many of the limitations of traditional databases in the cloud.  You can find emergent architectures behind many successful distributed systems occurring in technology and in nature.  The architectures are characterized by simple and autonomous actions by components that produce complex, coordinated behaviors in the overall system. 

The Internet is an emergent system.  So is NuoDB.  So is a flock of birds.  Visualize the coordinated actions of a flock of birds – they take off together, fly together, and land together, yet no one bird is in charge. 

The NuoDB Emergent Architecture separates transaction processing and storage by allowing you to configure and run one or more Transaction Engine and Storage Manager nodes that together constitute a single database.  By adding additional transaction nodes to a running database, your database linearly scales out by handling more transactions per second as these get processed in parallel utilizing all available distributed memory.  

Each storage node in NuoDB holds a complete copy of the data and is automatically managed by the system.  NuoDB Storage Managers are key-value stores that store data on your local file system, on Amazon S3, or Hadoop HDFS.  Transaction and storage nodes can be installed and run on different computers in a data center, an in-house computer network, or both. 

For more information on NuoDB’s Emergent Architecture, download the NuoDB White Paper. 

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