History

XtremeData's founders recognized the oncoming tsunami of Big Data and the inadequacy of legacy solutions to handle this deluge. XtremeData started operations in 2005 on the premise that big data analytics would demand new solutions that leverage new developments in computing technology. That premise has been clearly vindicated today.

The past few years have seen the rise of numerous NoSQL solutions and a handful of parallel SQL databases. In the domain of SQL databases, XtremeData's dbX product is unique in the market: the only row-based parallel database that has been engineered from first principles. While others were slapping together federations of open-source database engines, XtremeData's engineering team took a fresh, blank slate approach to the core database engine.

We quickly concluded that fundamental re-thinking and engineering was necessary to fully leverage multi-core CPUs, vector engines, faster memory systems and higher network bandwidths. And the result is dbX.

dbX is a natively parallel database engine with a core SQL execution engine that is vector-oriented to enable continuous acceleration benefits with evolving technology. In the early days, we implemented plug-in acceleration via a patented FPGA module. As CPU technology continued to evolve rapidly, especially with Intel's Nehalem processors, we shifted our focus to acceleration via many-Core CPUs. Today dbX is offered as a software-only product that is easily deployed in "commodity" data centers on large Linux clusters of x86 processors.

XtremeData is a privately held company headquartered outside of Chicago in Schaumburg, IL with an R&D center in Bangalore, India.