Company:ScaleBase

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ScaleBase was a company that sold software to implement distributed MySQL databases for cloud computing. The software company was located in the Boston, Massachusetts , area.[1]

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 2012. In October 2012, ScaleBase closed a Series B round of $10.5 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners and its original investor, Cedar Fund.[2][3]

ScaleArc raised $5.33 million in December 2011.[4] $12 million of new funding was announced in January 2013 was led by Accell Partners.[5] The assets of ScaleBase were acquired by ScaleArc in August 2015.[6]

Technology

The company ScaleBase provided two technology offerings: one was also called ScaleBase, and the other was Analysis Genie.

ScaleBase software was first released in August 2011.[7]

ScaleBase is a distributed database cluster built on MySQL.[8] This capability provides the scalability and availability benefits of distributed database while retaining relational database characteristics.

  • Two-phase commit and roll-back
  • ACID compliance
  • SQL query model, including cross-node joins and aggregations

ScaleBase data distribution is policy-based and transparent. That is, ScaleBase provides visibility and control of the variables that impact the data distribution policy.[9]

ScaleBase software was available on Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS), Rackspace, and IBM Cloud.

Analysis Genie was software as a service that analyzed schema and queries. Its purpose is to suggest a data distribution policy that is uniquely tuned for individual application requirements and database workloads.

References

  1. "Company: About Us". Old web site. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316073358/https://www.scalebase.com/company/. 
  2. Reidy, Chris. "Newton data base company ScaleBase secures $10.5 million in funding". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2012/10/17/scalebase-secures-series-funding/Z4R8P4eh5L6ASbTcJWOE1I/story.html. 
  3. Rip Empson (October 17, 2012). "ScaleBase Lands $10.5M To Help Mozilla, AppDynamics & Others Scale Their Databases". Tech Crunch. https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/scalebase-lands-10-5m-to-help-mozilla-appdynamics-others-scale-their-databases/. Retrieved September 23, 2016. 
  4. Robin Wauters (December 20, 2011). "ScaleArc Raises $5.33 Million In Series B Funding, Hires COO". Tech Crunch. https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/scalearc-raises-5-33-million-in-series-b-funding-hires-coo. Retrieved September 23, 2016. 
  5. Steven E.F. Brown (January 10, 2013). "ScaleArc raises $12 million". San Francisco Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2013/01/10/scalearc-raises-12-million.html. Retrieved September 23, 2016. 
  6. Stephanie Simone (August 24, 2015). "Sharding Technology Now Available from ScaleArc after Acquiring ScaleBase". http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Sharding-Technology-Now-Available-from-ScaleArc-after-Acquiring-ScaleBase-105932.aspx. Retrieved September 23, 2016. 
  7. Babcock, Charles. "ScaleBase Offers 'Get-Out-Of-Jail Card' To MySQL Users". Information Week. http://www.informationweek.com/development/database/scalebase-offers-get-out-of-jail-card-to/231500198. 
  8. Heath, Garrett. "Cloud Tools to Enhance Your Application Performance". infoworld.com. http://www.infoworld.com/article/2606473/cloud-computing/cloud-tools-to-enhance-your-application-performance.html. 
  9. Ltd., Bloor Research International. "Distributing MySQL databases - Bloor". bloorresearch.com. http://www.bloorresearch.com/blog/im-blog/2014/10/distributing-mysql-databases/. 

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