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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Company: About Us". Old web site. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015.
  2. ^ Stephanie Simone (August 24, 2015). "Sharding Technology Now Available from ScaleArc after Acquiring ScaleBase". Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  3. ^ Babcock, Charles. "ScaleBase Offers 'Get-Out-Of-Jail Card' To MySQL Users". Information Week.
  4. ^ Robin Wauters (December 20, 2011). "ScaleArc Raises $5.33 Million In Series B Funding, Hires COO". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  5. ^ Reidy, Chris. "Newton data base company ScaleBase secures $10.5 million in funding". Boston Globe.
  6. ^ Rip Empson (October 17, 2012). "ScaleBase Lands $10.5M To Help Mozilla, AppDynamics & Others Scale Their Databases". Tech Crunch. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  7. ^ Steven E.F. Brown (January 10, 2013). "ScaleArc raises $12 million". San Francisco Business Journal. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  8. ^ Stephanie Simone (August 24, 2015). "Sharding Technology Now Available from ScaleArc after Acquiring ScaleBase". Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  9. ^ Heath, Garrett (9 September 2014). "Cloud Tools to Enhance Your Application Performance". infoworld.com. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  10. ^ Ltd., Bloor Research International (16 October 2014). "Distributing MySQL databases - Bloor". bloorresearch.com. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
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