1. Welcome to the New Age
The time for variations on existing database themes is over. If
databases are going to scale in the cloud, a whole new approach is
needed; one unsaddled by ancient assumptions. We have kept the
best of 20th century RDBMS. Then we re-wrote the rules to create
a completely new Cloud Data Management System for the 21st
century. Welcome to the New Age.
Dig in. Scale out.
With widespread adoption of cloud computing, the game has changed
dramatically. To fully leverage all the flexibility and economies of the cloud, you
need a new kind of database. NuoDB has created just what the cloud requires: a
brand new Cloud Data Management System (CDMS).
Is this you?
NuoDB is a complete re-think of relational databases. We’ve re-written the rules
NuoDB downloaders run the to define a New Age for relational databases with full SQL and ACID reliability
gamut and the globe from and unique support for the cloud’s asynchronous nature. All in a shared-nothing,
hotshot developers to multi- distributed architecture that scales elastically; supports your existing SQL
national conglomerates. All doing expertise and is amazingly simple to use.
innovative things with scaling
Elastically scale your application to handle millions of transactions per second;
databases in the cloud or on
serve a global village of concurrent users and handle the biggest Big Data …at a
premise.
moment’s notice. NuoDB offers two editions to meet the scalable SQL database
requirements of every kind of developer and every application.
Before NuoDB
Watch our 90-second New web-scale applications have operational requirements that can’t be easily
overview video: met by traditional relational database technologies. Big data, highly variable
www.nuodb.com peak loads, geographically distributed loads, commoditized datacenters, and
100% uptime requirements for high volume web applications have pushed
traditional operational databases to their limits.
Today’s SQL database technology is 30 years old. It was never designed to
address modern cloud-based compute and storage resources. You can make it
work in the cloud but you will be sharding, caching, replicating, and spending a
lot of time and money to get where you want to go.
Or, you can try a database solution built to handle today’s demands for elastic
scalability, reliability and simplicity. NuoDB.
With NuoDB, you get a database that behaves like any other traditional SQL
database and provides all the benefits you have come to expect from standards-
based SQL solutions, including guaranteed ACID transactions but... It also scales
out and in elastically and simply.

2. NuoDB Product Brochure
Welcome to the New Age
Welcome to the New Age
NuoDB is a complete re-think of relational databases based on a patented
“NuoDB is proving that it can emergent architecture. It was designed to operate in an elastic cloud of
computers rather than a single computer system. It is object-oriented, highly
deliver a scalable, elastic and
decentralized, and asynchronous.
ACID compliant database
solution I can seriously This means you can run a far greater number of databases on inexpensive
recommend to clients.” commodity hardware with 24 by 7 uptime and minimal database administration.
Ian Mariano, Software Architect
NorthPoint Solutions, a leading NuoDB Deployment Architecture
business and technology
consulting firm specializing in Broker Agent Console Management
custom business applications.
Cloud LINUX
Transaction Engine Transaction
Windows
Datacenter
Storage Manager Storage
Experience NuoDB
Apple
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Persistent
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File System S3 HDFS
Storage
Figure 1: NuoDB Architecture
Using NuoDB
NuoDB behaves just like any other SQL database as far as your applications are
concerned. It is ANSI SQL92 compliant with SQL99 extensions and works with
many popular ORM tools such as Hibernate, PDO, Active Record… and ships with
a set of JDBC/ODBC drivers. However, for just a few minutes, forget everything
you believe is true of an OLTP database and dig into the core components of
NuoDB.
There are three core components that make NuoDB so powerful, performant,
and simple to deploy, anywhere, any time:
The NuoDB Transaction Engine (TE), which is comprised of one or more
processes (transaction nodes) running on (diskless) compute nodes. These
in-memory processes execute the SQL layer by operating on database atoms,
listen for changes, and communicate changes with peers.
You can learn more about Atoms on the NuoDB How it Works page.
The NuoDB Storage Manager (SM), which is a specialized Transaction Engine
that knows how to store and retrieve data on disk. Adding a new storage node
automatically creates a copy of the entire database, which increases both
performance and resiliency.
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3. NuoDB Product Brochure
Welcome to the New Age
Storage nodes can leverage virtually any type of data storage that can manage
a key-value store, for example a local file system, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS, or
a SAN.
A NuoDB Broker is a process running on at least one node (host) that provides
“NuoDB is a game changer.” applications SQL/JDBC access to the database.
NuoDB enables you to configure and manage one or more databases within
Marcus Ross, SQL Trainer/
an administrative domain, referred to as the NuoDB Domain. Each NuoDB
Consultant
database within a domain can be as simple as a single transaction node, a single
Zahlenhelfer Consulting, an
storage node, and a broker. Each database can be configured to run a number
application consulting firm in
of transaction engines and storage managers across hosts in a datacenter, in the
Hamburg, Germany cloud, or a combination of the two.
NuoDB ships with a graphical administrative tool, the NuoDB Console, which
centralizes monitoring of your decentralized database through an easy-to-use
configurable Web app. The console allows you to manage databases within
a domain, to start and stop each database, add additional resources to your
database such as transaction and storage nodes, and monitor your database in
real-time.
Scaling out is achieved by simply adding nodes. Scaling in is achieved by
removing nodes. As long as a single transaction node, a storage node, and a
broker exist, the database continues to operate.
NuoDB Editions
To meet the needs of independent developers, small firms and global
enterprises focused on delivering traditional database apps or Software-as-a-
Service products, NuoDB is available in two distributions – the Developer and
Pro Editions.
The NuoDB Developer Edition lets users develop NuoDB apps at full throttle
without restrictions on data size or number of hosts. Developers can push
their applications up to (and beyond) real-world scenarios at no charge.
Design, develop and test applications on the Developer Edition to get a true
understanding of the resources needed to achieve necessary transactional
throughput and data size for pre-production applications. When your app is
ready for primetime, commercial deployment, move to the Pro Edition.
Use NuoDB Pro Edition for free until your apps need to scale. Then go faster,
scale at a moment’s notice, or handle big data by upgrading your Pro Edition.
You will have additional hosts and you can add as much storage as you need.
NuoDB allows you to scale out in production like no other database solution
can. Its unique, patented architecture gives you the built-in elasticity, multi-
tenancy and geo-redundancy capabilities to take your application global in a
hurry. The Pro Edition can handle millions of transactions per second, a global
village of concurrent users and Big Data… all at a moment’s notice; all on
commodity hardware.
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4. NuoDB Product Brochure
Welcome to the New Age
Run-time Pro Edition Developer
Pro Edition
Configuration Free Edition
Hosts 2 2 or more No Restriction
Storage 4GB 16GB or more No Restriction
Databases No Restriction No Restriction No Restriction
Transaction
No Restriction No Restriction No Restriction
“With NuoDB I’m already in Engines
the cloud, with little or no Storage Managers No Restriction No Restriction No Restriction
effort - a cloud that manages File System YES YES YES
to be backwards-compatible.” Amazon S3 YES YES YES
HDFS NO OPTION YES
Eduard Suica, Workaholic Developer Support
RadGs Software, a software ORM Support YES YES YES
company located in Romania ERD Support YES YES YES
ODBC/JDBC YES YES YES
Licensing and Support
Production
YES YES NO
Deployment
Software License FREE COMMERCIAL FREE
Term PERPETUAL ANNUAL ANNUAL
Technical Specifications
Operating System Version
OS X 10.7 or later
Windows Win7 x32
Win7 x64
Linux RHEL 5 (x64)
RHEL 6 (x64)
SuSe 10 (x64)
SuSe 11 (x64)
Ubuntu 10 (x64)
Ubuntu 11 (x64)
Ubuntu 12 (x64)
Solaris (Intel) Solaris 11 (x64)
Joyent Smart OS
Cloud Amazon Basic EC2 (x64)
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5. NuoDB Product Brochure
Welcome to the New Age
Required Software
Name Version
Mac JDK Java 1.6 or Later
Open JDK Java 1.6 or Later
Oracle JDK Java 1.6 or Later
“NuoDB offers the scalability
my application requires and Recommended Minimum Hardware
does so in a more affordable,
more easily implemented CPU Dual core, x86_64 processor 64 bit, 1.6GHz
manner than any other Memory 4 GB
competitive solutions I have
investigated.”
Idan Schechter, application
NuoDB Benefits
developer, Israel NuoDB delivers a powerful set of business benefits that increase IT flexibility like
no other database. It’s the first and only elastic cloud database. Welcome to the
new age. Elastic scalability and lower costs.
With NuoDB it is simple to provision new nodes to scale out; take them away to
scale back in. NuoDB takes care of the rest. Because the database scales out as
nodes are added, you just add low cost servers (not bigger servers) to increase
throughput and performance. Or you can even run NuoDB on a laptop!
Delivers Breakthrough Performance
NuoDB delivers capacity on demand by adding or deleting computational and
storage resources in a running database. It’s designed for elastic scale-out to
very high transaction volumes – in the millions of transactions per second (TPS)
– and graceful scale-in when resources are no longer needed.
Improves Deployment Flexibility
Deploy to the cloud, on-premises resources, or both (hybrid), and dynamically
scale out, and in, as needed. Delayed or “just-in-time” provisioning, and flexible
resource utilization (allowing processes to be assigned to different machines at
different times) lowers your resource costs and increases your flexibility.
Handles Traffic Spikes with Elegance
Bad things can happen when traffic spikes unexpectedly. NuoDB lets you
handle dynamic traffic loads, bursting traffic, and transient peaks by simply
provisioning additional resources. The database does all the work.
You Can Act Faster
NuoDB allows you to implement client applications and capitalize on new
opportunities faster. You can scale out if your projects are successful, and scale
back as projects require less resources.
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6. NuoDB Product Brochure
Welcome to the New Age
Maintains Maximum Resource Availability (even if machines fail)
The ability to continue to run operations smoothly as nodes are brought up and
taken down (or fail) delivers an important set of business benefits, including:
• Minimizes risk of service outage
• Delivers greater business continuity
• Provides stronger SLAs and better SLA compliance
• Increases database reliability
“NuoDB is proof that • Makes your system resilient to network, machine, datacenter, (and other)
innovation is continuing failures
apace in the database • Allows to perform ”hot” system (hardware/software) upgrades
• Allows to perform “hot” datacenter moves
market. Driven by seasoned
• Low latency operations for geographically distributed traffic
database experts with an
impressive track record, the
Since NuoDB supports ACID compliant “Active-Active” operations in
company is now releasing a geographically distributed locations, it is ideal for applications that must
high- performance SQL-based process transactions from worldwide visitors using geographically distributed
large- scale-out transactional datacenters to ensure low latency regardless of the visitor’s location.
database that runs happily on
commodity hardware. It will SQL Compliance and ACID Transactions
likely attract a good deal of Finally you can have SQL and ACID running effortlessly on the cloud.
attention.”
SQL is the de facto standard database language. It has been around since the
1970s. Your developers all know how to program in it, and your applications all
Robin Bloor, Ph.D.
interface with the database through standard SQL interfaces.
Chief Analyst & Co-Founder
The Bloor Group ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, and Durable) transactions guarantee that
the database tier handles the transaction processing in a consistent and reliable
manner, freeing the application from managing these tasks (and freeing the
application developer from having to code them into the application), while
ensuring the integrity of the data in the database.
SQL and ACID have been and remain to be critical requirements for a
transactional database. The problem is that no database has been able to
provide SQL and ACID capabilities, and scale elastically and effortlessly on the
cloud. Until now, that is. NuoDB is the first and only database to provide SQL
compliance and ACID transactions built to run on distributed, decentralized
cloud-based resources.
Effortless Administration and Shard No More
What good is the cloud if you need a team of DBAs to get your database to
run on it? Using a traditional SQL database with a Web application requires
constant, ongoing tuning, and probably requires sharding to split the database
into distinct sections to handle scale. Sharding limits flexibility (future changes
may be inconsistent with the sharding logic) and creates complexity in the
application (which shard has the data?). It may require caching strategies (e.g.
memcached) to configure the database queries to hit the cache layer to lessen
the load on the database.
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7. NuoDB Product Brochure
Welcome to the New Age
In contrast, NuoDB’s installation, configuration, and administration are
alarmingly simple. The database easily installs in minutes and requires minimal
performance tuning and administration, reducing complexity and costs, even as
your requirements grow.
Built-in Data Replication Capabilities for Real-time,
Operational Analytics
You can configure NuoDB to serialize multiple, redundant instances of the data
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to meet your data protection requirements, or so that your analytic processes
Edition available execute without touching the operational data, for example. NuoDB provides
at www.nuodb.com storage flexibility: You can use various file systems (for example Amazon S3,
Hadoop HDFS, local disk) as archives.
No more moving data from an operational store to a datamart or data
warehouse to run analytics. Eliminate the need to pull data out via an ETL tool,
transform it, cleanse it and then analyze it. With NuoDB do that on the same
database in real-time with major savings in time and cost. And, no need to
purchase additional licenses for analytics purposes.
Easy Support for Extreme Multi-tenant Applications
Some companies must support a large number of databases, for example,
if they are running multiple applications, or supporting a large number of
customers with a SaaS application. One Infrastructure as a Service provider
operates 300 70-node clusters, that each run 500 instances of a traditional SQL
database. That means they are using 21,000 nodes are needed to support
150,000 database instances!
NuoDB makes it easy for multi-tenant applications to efficiently share among
pools of resources, to lower your costs and dramatically increase resource
allocation.
Plus no more custom schemas running on top of a traditional, 20th century
database, where the underlying schemas are all stored in the same database,
creating a major security risk. With NuoDB, the secure, multi-tenant
environment means no two customers ever share the same database. There
is always a clear separation and data isolation between any two customers.
This is a key requirement for customers subject to compliance regulations like
Sarbanes Oxley or HIIPA. And, you can sleep at night.
Simple to Learn and Use
NuoDB has a simple and intuitive development environment, and is fast and
easy for developers to learn and use. Because it’s SQL compliant, you don’t
need to educate yourself on something all new. NuoDB is based on what you
already know very well.
Affordability
NuoDB is a revolutionary database that is designed to scale out and in on
heterogeneous deployment environments. NuoDB is also affordable. It’s
available as an unrestricted Developer Edition and an elastically scalable Pro
Edition for commercial deployment.
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8. Summary
NuoDB is a complete re-think of relational databases with innovative support for
the Cloud’s dynamic, asynchronous nature.
Experience NuoDB NuoDB is a Cloud Data Management System (CDMS) that is:
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• 100% ACID
• 100% Elastically scalable
• 0% administrative hassle.
All in a shared-nothing, distributed architecture that scales elastically; leverages
your existing SQL expertise; provides blistering performance and is amazingly
simple to use.
Elastically scale your application to serve a global village of concurrent users
and handle the biggest Big Data …at a moment’s notice. We’ve written the rules
for 21st century relational databases and created a database that’s all about you
and your application. Welcome to the New Age.
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