January 25, 2011

ScaleBase, another MPP OLTP quasi-DBMS

Liran Zelkha of ScaleBase raised his hand on Twitter. It turns out ScaleBase has a story rather similar to that of CodeFutures/dbShards. That is:

Our talk didn’t get deeply technical, and I don’t know exactly how ScaleBase’s replication works. But a website reference to a small transaction log in a distributed cache does sound, while not identical to the dbShards approach, at least directionally similar.

ScaleBase is a year or so old, with about 6 people, based in the Boston area despite strong Israeli roots. ScaleBase has raised a round of venture capital; I didn’t ask for details.

Liran says that ScaleBase is in closed beta, with some production users, at least one of whom has over 100 database servers.

Comments

10 Responses to “ScaleBase, another MPP OLTP quasi-DBMS”

  1. Liran Zelkha on January 25th, 2011 6:55 pm

    If you want invites for the beta just drop me a mail at liran.zelkha@scalebase.com

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  3. Cory Isaacson on January 28th, 2011 7:58 pm

    There are some good things about a proxy, but it does add extra servers and some overhead.

    Just to clarify, dbShards does not use a proxy, instead the technology relies on an intelligent client that is plug-compatible with vendor drivers (C and JDBC are supported). This means that there is no middle tier between the app and the database, its a direct connection. The driver simply makes the sharding decisions and delegates to the native driver for communications.

  4. Liran Zelkha on February 18th, 2011 11:11 am

    That’s true. However – the entire eco-system of the database – BI, etc. can not work with a driver – only with a proxy.

  5. Cory Isaacson on February 20th, 2011 6:10 pm

    Plug-compatible drivers are both efficient and work seamlessly with BI and other tools — they have an identical API that matches the vendor drivers. The drivers do have to be installed of course, but that is the case with any database product.

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