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TransLattice
IndustryRelational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Founded2007
FounderFrank Huerta
Defunct2016 (2016)
FateAppears to have gone defunct sometime around 2016
Headquarters,
United States
Key people
Frank Huerta, Founder & CEO

Michael Lyle, Executive Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder

Louise Funke, Vice President of Marketing

Melissa Conaulty, Vice President of Strategic Alliances
ProductsTransLattice Elastic Database (TED)

TransLattice Application Platform (TAP)

TransLattice Application Kit (TAK)
Number of employees
20+
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20150314201212/http://www.translattice.com/

TransLattice was a software company based in Santa Clara, California that operated from 2007 to around 2016. It geographically distributed databases and applications for enterprise, cloud, and hybrid environments. TransLattice offered a NewSQL database and an application platform, and was responsible for making Postgres-XL open source.

History

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TransLattice was founded in 2007 and officially launched in 2010. The company co-founders are Frank Huerta, CEO, Mike Lyle, Executive VP of Engineering and Robert Geiger, who previously worked together at Recourse Technologies. TransLattice was based in Santa Clara, California.

In August 2008 the company received $9.5 million in series A funding from DCM, an early stage capital venture funding company.[1]

In 2013, TransLattice acquired StormDB, a database-as-a-service startup.[2][3] StormDB's clustered PostgreSQL fork was open sourced in 2014 under the name Postgres-XL.[4]

The company appears to have gone defunct somewhere between 2014 and 2016, with the website hosting expiring in 2016 and updates on the company's Twitter page ceasing in 2014,[5] due to being unable to build a business around their TransLattice Elastic Database management system.[6] Frank Huerta, the CEO, now works at a different company named Curtail.[7]

Technology

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TransLattice specialized in distributed databases and application platforms for enterprise and cloud IT systems.[8] The company has developed a geographically-distributed computing-architecture that allows a single database to run on multiple nodes located anywhere.[9]

The TransLattice Elastic Database (TED), a NewSQL database management system, enables the building of a "highly available, fault tolerant data fabric comprised of multiple nodes that can be located anywhere in the world".[8] The TransLattice database is fully SQL/ACID-compliant.[10] TED operates as "a cohesive, single database".[11]

TransLattice provided the world's first geographically-distributed relational database management system (RDBMS) to deploy on multiple public-cloud-provider networks at the same time, as well as on virtual machines, physical hardware or any combination thereof.[12][13]

References

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  1. ^ Morgan, Timothy. "Postgres-on-steroids wields bare metal in Oracle, IBM skirmish." The Register. Jul. 24, 2012
  2. ^ Clark, Jack (10 October 2013). "TransLattice gobbles StormDB upstart for Postgres threesome". The Register.
  3. ^ Harris, Derrick (2013-10-09). "Cloud database consolidation as TransLattice buys StormDB". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  4. ^ Clark, Jack (13 May 2014). "'Behold my creation: Postgres-XL' bellows TransLattice". The Register.
  5. ^ "TransLattice, Inc. / Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  6. ^ Aslett, Matt (3 June 2021). "Ten years of NewSQL: Back to the future of distributed relational databases". S&P Global Market Intelligence. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  7. ^ "About Curtail". Curtail, Inc. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  8. ^ a b Preimesberger, Chris. "Geography Plays Key Role in TransLattice Elastic Database." eWeek. Aug. 2, 2012
  9. ^ Koetsier, John. "12 nodes, 5 continents, 1 database: TransLattice intros world’s first geographically distributed database." Venture Beat. Jul 24, 2012
  10. ^ Matchett, Mike. "A SQL Sequel Called TED - the Distributed TransLattice Elastic Database." Taneja Blog. Aug. 7, 2012
  11. ^ Crosman, Penny (2012-07-24). "TransLattice Pitches 'Elastic' Database to Give Global View of Customer Information". Bank Technology News. American Banker. SourceMedia. ISSN 0002-7561. Retrieved 2015-10-01. According to TransLattice, the Elastic Database it's announcing today is the first geographically distributed SQL database. 'We've put together a system that's able to combine resources and nodes from different regions containing different data into a cohesive, single database,' says CTO Mike Lyle.
  12. ^ Gallagher, Matt. "TransLattice Becomes First Database System to Mix/Match Multiple Clouds." Red Herring. Feb. 25, 2013
  13. ^ "12 nodes, 5 continents, 1 database: TransLattice intros world's first geographically distributed database". VentureBeat. 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2020-10-27.