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.

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.

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.

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.

Carbon Diem

Perst Lite, McObject’s embedded database for Java ME, plays a critical role in the Carbon Hero application that runs on a BlackBerry or Nokia Nseries mobile phone, tracks the user’s travels, and automatically calculates her or her carbon footprint. Read the press release.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hydril

Hydril chose eXtremeDB High Availability for the controllers in its blowout prevention system, which averts disasters in undersea oil and gas drilling. eXtremeDB High Availability’s replication of vital system data, at multiple levels and with automatic fail-over, provides the required high level of fault-tolerance. eXtremeDB, running on the QNX Neutrino RTOS, also provides the core messaging system with its remote access interface. Get details.

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.