Who Uses McObject Embedded Databases?

McObject’s eXtremeDB and Perst embedded database systems are used in a wide variety of demanding applications, across multiple industries. The following describes a few of our customers.

DIRECTV

DIRECTV, the nation’s largest satellite television service provider, chose the eXtremeDB Fusion embedded database to manage programming data in set-top boxes. eXtremeDB Fusion’s support for in-memory and on-disk storage enables DIRECTV to use a single software design across its product line of disk-enabled and disk-less set-top boxes, resulting in significant development time and cost savings. For more details, click here.

BAE Systems

BAE Systems integrates the eXtremeDB in-memory database for avionics in the Panavia Tornado GR4 combat jet. Within the aircraft’s Tornado Advanced Radar/Map Display Information System (TARDIS), eXtremeDB manages tactical information and is updated in real-time from multiple sources. The company chose eXtremeDB rather than developing its own database in order to reduce costs and shorten time-to-market. Get details.

Smarter Grid Solutions

Smarter Grid Solutions, the UK's largest dedicated smart grid technology company, uses McObject's eXtremeDB Cluster distributed database system within its Active Network Management technology. Smarter Grid Solutions helps power grids to increase energy sources, and eXtremeDB Cluster's fault-tolerant architecture supports the company's mission-critical requirements. Get Details.

NSE .IT

NSE.IT, the 100%-owned IT subsidiary of India's National Stock Exchange (NSE), the third largest stock exchange in the world (by volume), slashed latency in its algorithmic trading solution (part of the NeatXS trading platform) by replacing RDBMS technology with McObject's eXtremeDB In-Memory Database System.
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CA Wily Technology

CA Wily Technology, a division of CA, integrates McObject’s Perst open source, object-oriented embedded database system in its market-leading Enterprise Application Management solutions. “Adding new functionality with Perst enabled us to shorten our development cycle and deliver a 10-fold increase in data storage performance,” a CA Wily senior technologist says.Read more.

Genesis Microchip/ST Micro

Genesis Microchip, a unit of ST Micro, leverages the eXtremeDB real-time database in an electronic programming guide, where the eXtremeDB in-memory database facilitates optimal data designs, supports reliability and data integrity, and makes possible efficient data retrieval and storage. Get the full story.

Genband

Genband, a leader in fixed-mobile connectivity (FMC) solutions, has integrated McObject’s eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system in multiple applications within its IntelliConnect® System product family, which enables operators to deliver intelligent, secure and scalable session management between fixed, mobile and blended IP networks. Get more details.

Financial Technologies of India, Ltd. (FTIL)

Mumbai-based Financial Technologies of India, Ltd. (FTIL), a global leader in offering technology and domain expertise in creating next-generation market solutions, has adopted the eXtremeDB IMDS in its real-time financial software. FTIL will deploy eXtremeDB in its Microsoft Windows Server-based DOME (Distributed Order Management Engine) trading platform and in other products. Learn more.

SCL Elements

SCL Elements' CAN2GO solution provides wireless building automation for the underserved market of smaller structures and retrofit jobs. CAN2GO is multi-protocol (it integrates ZigBee, EnOcean, CANbus and BACnet/IP) and based on a decentralized/embedded approach to automation topology. The company adopted the eXtremeDB In-Memory Database System (IMDS) for CAN2GO controllers. Read an RTC Magazine article about SCL Elements' use of eXtremeDB.

Patton Electronics

Patton Electronics is a leader in network access and connectivity, and has leveraged this expertise to build a manufacturing company that employs more than 170 people and provides a product line in excess of 300 items. Patton Electronics has chosen McObject’s eXtremeDB embedded database system to enhance the performance and reliability of embedded software for network communications. Read More.

EADS

The European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) Company develops and markets aircraft for the civil and military markets, as well as missiles, space rockets, satellites, and related technology. eXtremeDB is the real-time in-memory database in the Pilot Assistance program in Eurocopter medical evacuation helicopters. Click here for more information.

Tradestation

TradeStation, a Monex Group company and the parent company of an award-winning broker-dealer and futures commission merchant, will integrate McObject’s eXtremeDB Financial Edition in-memory database system (IMDS) into its next-generation order-execution system. McObject’s technology was selected after it performed “an order of magnitude” faster than alternative database systems in a proof-of-concept. Learn more.

Dalian Commodity Exchange

In the Dalian Commodity Exchange’s trading platform, McObject’s 64-bit eXtremeDB-64 in-memory database manages all bids, offers and other real-time information used to complete more than 200,000 trades daily. The Dalian exchange is one of the largest such marketplaces in China. Read the press release.

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. The company integrates McObject’s eXtremeDB database system within its embedded technology for aerospace.

Airspan Networks

eXtremeDB plays a key role in Airspan's Air4G mobile broadband network base station. eXtremeDB's streamlined in-memory architecture and fast navigational application programming interface (API) deliver the needed speed. eXtremeDB's minimal RAM and CPU requirements lower Airspan's cost of manufacturing the base stations, and using an off-the-shelf database system cut developement time by an estimated nine programmer months. Get details.

Intuit

Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; and consumers and accounting professionals. The company has deployed the Perst Lite object-oriented, open source embedded database system for Java ME as part of its mobile financial solution.

Reinhausen

The REINHAUSEN Group is active in the field of power engineering and is composed of the Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR) located in Regensburg, Germany, and its 22 subsidiaries around the world. The company has adopted McObject’s eXtremeDB embedded database system to provide reliable, real-time data management capabilities in its industrial power transmission and distribution technology.

Stockhouse

Stockhouse (formerly Stockgroup Media) uses the eXtremeDB embedded database in a real-time application to provide real-time financial data and news combined with innovative tools to customers, investors, and employees.

SOMA Networks

SOMA Networks develops the FlexMAX™ Mobile WiMAX System, a complete broadband wireless system portfolio that allows carriers to offer high-margin applications and a superior subscriber experience to residential and SoHo consumers though service providers, worldwide. McObject's eXtremeDB High Availability in-memory database plays a critical role in FlexMAX base stations, providing real-time, fault-tolerant storage and retrieval of network traffic routing data. Read more

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin, one of the largest global defense and security technology companies, chose McObject embedded database software for an R&D application for the Medium Extended Air Defense Systems (MEADS) air and missile defense system project of the United States and NATO partners. The company's make-or-buy analysis found economic and time-to-market benefits in licensing a commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) high performance DBMS. Learn more.

Transaction Network Services

Transaction Network Services' Carrier ENUM Registry searches billions of records for the data to perform routing and support advanced telecom featurse, at the moment a call is placed or a message sent. The company chose the 64-bit eXtremeDB edition (eXtremeDB-64) to gain the best performance, reliability and scalability in the in-memory database system (IMDS) product category. Learn more.

Snap-on/NEXIQ Technologies

NEXIQ, a leading provider of vehicle diagnostic and telematics products, integrates eXtremeDB in its PRISM mobile telematics device, where the embedded database providing real-time storage and retrieval of geographical information systems (GIS) data and manages critical device configuration information. Read more.

IP Trade

IP Trade uses the eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database for real-time data management in its Profile trading turret, which integrates voice, data, video, collaboration, voice-to-text, contact management and other features into an IP-based phone system that lends a technological edge in fast-paced, information-intensive securities trading. Get more details.

Hutchison Telecom

The eXtremeDB High Availability database is used for real-time data caching in an innovative Linux- and Web Services-based real-time mobile telecommunications infrastructure application. “Deploying eXtremeDB as the cache gives us the best of both worlds: real-time in-memory performance, along with the reliability and data integrity of McObject’s proven database management system,” the developer says.

Peiker Acustic

Peiker Acustic, a German in-car telematics innovator, uses the eXtremeDB embedded database on the Green Hills Software INTEGRITY RTOS in a hands-free Bluetooth mobile telephone car kit that supports the most up-to-date speech recognition, text-to-speech, echo cancellation and Bluetooth hands-free profile software. Read the press release.

China’s Academy of Electrical Power

This state research group has deployed the eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database in a Phasor Measurement Unit device, part of a network supervision system designed to prevent blackouts and enhance reliability in the electrical grid serving millions of homes and businesses in eastern China. Find out more.

Agricultural Bank of China

The Agricultural Bank China is one of the “Big Four” of Chinese banks, and is among a group of major Chinese banks using the eXtremeDB in-memory database in a real-time software platform for trading futures contracts.

Radico

RadiCo, a leading Russian developer of radiation monitoring systems, uses the eXtremeDB in-memory embedded database system and the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS as core software components in its Radiation Monitoring System (RMS), which ensures safety in nuclear power plants serving millions of customers worldwide. Find out more.

Loewe Opta

Home entertainment technology innovator Loewe Opta integrates the eXtremeDB embedded database in real-time embedded software for digital television programming information management.

F5 Networks

The eXtremeDB real-time in-memory database is part of the Traffic Management Operating System (TMOS) used in F5 Networks’ BIG-IP application delivery networking devices. By combining ground-breaking performance with a tiny footprint, eXtremeDB enables the devices to manage complex data while delivering the required responsiveness, high availability, and reduced development and manufacturing costs. Read more.

Spirent Communications

The Spirent TestCenter platform is the gold standard for testing routers, switches and other networking and telecommunications gear. Spirent TestCenter incorporates the eXtremeDB embedded database to capture live network traffic data, by positioning eXtremeDB at each of its ports. Spirent credits eXtremeDB’s in-memory architecture, and its highly efficient navigational API, with delivering the responsiveness needed for real-time analysis. Read McObject’s press release or an Embedded.com article by Spirent’s CTO on eXtremeDB in Spirent TestCenter.

Maximizer

The Maximizer customer relationship management (CRM) application for BlackBerry smartphones includes McObject’s Perst Lite object-oriented, open source embedded database. Perst Lite enables storage on flash memory-based Secure Digital (SD) cards. This lets users access more records locally in order to retrieve and update leads, opportunities, customer service cases, notes and schedules, in order to stay productive and reduce downtime. Learn more.

JVC

Consumer electronics giant JVC builds eXtremeDB into both MP3 players and home stereo systems. McObject’s in-memory embedded database manages “meta-data” such as song titles, artists, genres, playlists and more. Using an off-the-shelf database enabled JVC to reduce development time, and eXtremeDB’s streamlined architecture both cuts hardware component costs, and lowers power consumption, leading longer play time between charges. Find out more.

Tyco Thermal Controls

Tyco Thermal Controls adopted eXtremeDB for embedded data management in its DigiTrace heat tracing system technology. In earlier generations of the product, the company used internally developed data management code. It moved to McObject’s off-the-shelf database system in order to significantly shorten embedded software development and testing cycles, and to provide greater reliability. Get the story.

Tagged

Tagged, one of the largest social networking Web sites, chose the 64-bit eXtremeDB-64 to provide a real-time cache of connection information used by members to meet, find out who is on-line, look up other people’s friends, and for other functions. In Tagged’s design, this in-memory caching reduces hits to the back-end Oracle database and accelerates system performance. Through features such as transaction logging, eXtremeDB provides recoverability that is lacking in distributed object cache products. Read more.

myYearbook

This top-ten social networking Web site uses eXtremeDB-64 in its ‘BlindDate’ compatibility-matching application. In one comparison test, myYearbook found that eXtremeDB calculated a match in 76 microseconds (76 millionths of a second) compared to 800 milliseconds, or nearly a second, using a traditional relational database management system (RDBMS). Read an InformationWeek article about eXtremeDB and myYearbook.

MedAptus

MedAptus, market leader for healthcare charge capture technologies, uses McObject’s Perst Lite embedded database in its Professional Intelligent Charge Capture client software for BlackBerry® smartphones. Perst Lite’s easy-to-use features saved upwards of two engineering months, the company’s CTO estimated. Read more.

Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications, a leading broadband and telecom carrier, has deployed the Perst Lite embedded database in mobile workforce software. Verizon's application runs on BlackBerry smartphones, and gives technical and service personnel in the field instant access to critical business and technical information. Verizon's mobile application with Perst Lite is ultimately slated for rollout to thousands of employees. Get details.