ScaleBase was a company that sold software to databases for cloud computing. The company was located in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. [1]
The assets of ScaleBase were acquired by software developer ScaleArc in August 2015. [2]
History
ScaleBase was founded in 2009 by Doron Levari. ScaleBase software was first released in August 2011. [3] ScaleArc raised $5.33 million in December 2011. [4] Ram Metser, formerly CEO of Guardium, a database security company acquired by IBM in 2009, was named as CEO in October 2012. That month, ScaleBase closed a Series B round of $10.5 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners and its original investor, Cedar Fund. [5] [6] $12 million of new funding was announced in January 2013, led by Accell Partners. [7]
The assets of ScaleBase were acquired by ScaleArc in August 2015. [8]
Technology
ScaleBase developed two products: ScaleBase and Analysis Genie.
- ScaleBase was a distributed database cluster built on MySQL. [9] This capability provides the scalability and availability benefits of distributed database while retaining relational database characteristics. ScaleBase provided visibility and control of the variables that impact the data distribution policy. [10]
- Analysis Genie was software as a service that analyzed schema and queries. Its purpose was to suggest a data distribution policy tuned for individual application requirements and database workloads.
References
- ^ "Company: About Us". Old web site. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015.
- ^ Stephanie Simone (August 24, 2015). "Sharding Technology Now Available from ScaleArc after Acquiring ScaleBase". Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ Babcock, Charles. "ScaleBase Offers 'Get-Out-Of-Jail Card' To MySQL Users". Information Week.
- ^ Robin Wauters (December 20, 2011). "ScaleArc Raises $5.33 Million In Series B Funding, Hires COO". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ Reidy, Chris. "Newton data base company ScaleBase secures $10.5 million in funding". Boston Globe.
- ^ Rip Empson (October 17, 2012). "ScaleBase Lands $10.5M To Help Mozilla, AppDynamics & Others Scale Their Databases". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ Steven E.F. Brown (January 10, 2013). "ScaleArc raises $12 million". San Francisco Business Journal. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ Stephanie Simone (August 24, 2015). "Sharding Technology Now Available from ScaleArc after Acquiring ScaleBase". Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ Heath, Garrett (9 September 2014). "Cloud Tools to Enhance Your Application Performance". infoworld.com. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- ^ Ltd., Bloor Research International (16 October 2014). "Distributing MySQL databases - Bloor". bloorresearch.com. Retrieved December 9, 2016.