Database for Network Infrastructure

eXtremeDB offers ultra-fast performance, high availability, Patricia trie indexes and more!

Modern telecom and networking devices manage large volumes of complex data and demand stellar low-latency performance and lasting reliability. eXtremeDB has been at the core of network equipment for years.

Distributed Database Topologies

Routers, firewalls, switches, servers, load-balancers and other network infrastructure equipment are the backbone of all modern businesses. Flexible, adaptive, and trustworthy databases are a vital software component of any network infrastructure device. eXtremeDB’s resilient distributed database options — multi-master, master-slave and horizontal partitioning topologies used in dozens of network devices’ designs contribute to the high degree of availability, scalability and rock-hard reliability of today’s network fabric.

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Read about Five 9s High Availability in our online documentation

Inherently Fast Lookups

The forwarding performance of core network devices is a critical issue for network carriers. With the number of internet nodes measured in tens of billions, the size of a router’s forwarding and routing tables are extremely large, making the internet address lookup a challenging performance problem. eXtremeDB’s low-latency database access, advanced in-memory layout design fused with efficient persistent storage, and integrated specialized search algorithms — such as Patricia trie, carries tangible benefits for network gear manufacturers.

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Watch the Webinar, Using Data Indexes to Boost Performance and Minimize Footprint in Embedded Software.

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Learn about hybrid data management with eXtremeDB.

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Review the white paper, The Role of In-Memory Database Systems for Routing Table Management in IP Routers

Learn more about eXtremeDB indexes

Watch the Webinar, Using Data Indexes to Boost Performance and Minimize Footprint in Embedded Software.

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Learn about hybrid data management with eXtremeDB.

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Review the white paper, The Role of In-Memory Database Systems for Routing Table Management in IP Routers

A Choice of Development Environment

Today’s telecom devices are complex software-intensive systems that run multiple protocols and software layers that make use of several data repositories and utilize a variety of database access strategies. While critical-path software components focus on performance, others implement complex logic, prioritize portability, or favor simplicity of development and deployment. eXtremeDB’s rich development toolset includes SQL and NoSQL native APIs for C, C++, Java, C#, Python, Rust and LUA programming languages, and supports multiple hardware architectures and operating systems.

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The eXtremeDB type-safe API eliminates database corruption.

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Review the white paper, SQL or Navigational Database APIs: Which Best Fits Embedded Systems?

eXtremeDB offers a choice of interface with multiple APIs

Developed for Resource-constrained, Mission-critical Systems

Now a hybrid, persistent and in-memory DBMS eXtremeDB was originally designed and optimized as an in-memory database system (IMDS) for use in resource-constrained, mission-critical and safety-critical embedded systems. Our background and expertise in the defense and aviation sectors means that eXtremeDB is exceptionally reliable and frugal in resource consumption, providing a critical competitive advantage to developers of network equipment utilizing cost-effective ARM, MIPS and PowerPC architectures.

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eXtremeDB enables the developer to easily combine both database paradigms – in-memory and on-disk – in a single database instance.

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Review the white paper, Exploring Code Size and Footprint, and In-Memory Database Techniques to Minimize Footprint

Learn why being designed and implemented as an in-memory database system is a crucial first step for a hybrid database system.

Learn how eXtremeDB reduces memory usage

Learn why being designed and implemented as an in-memory database system is a crucial first step for a hybrid database system.

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eXtremeDB enables the developer to easily combine both database paradigms – in-memory and on-disk – in a single database instance.

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Review the white paper, Exploring Code Size and Footprint, and In-Memory Database Techniques to Minimize Footprint

Low-overhead Online Incremental Backup

Equipment malfunctions, power outages and network faults happen. Multiple self-healing algorithms are put in place by service providers to improve the robustness and resilience of networks, of which protecting data repositories is an essential part. Combined with its replication capabilities, eXtremeDB’s low overhead and non-intrusive on-line incremental backup for transient and persistent data delivers a solid and efficient recovery mechanism for network infrastructure equipment developers.

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Delivers continuous online incremental backup

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Read about incremental backup in the documentation

Used by innovative industry leaders in over 30,000,000 deployments world-wide in these markets and others.

Aerospace & Defense

Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, British Aerospace, EADS and others depend on eXtremeDB’s reliability, unmatched performance and broad platform support.

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Consumer Electronics

JVC, DirecTV, GoPro and others all discovered that eXtremeDB’s small code size, portable data format and efficient use of compute & storage can reduce component cost while also supporting data-hungry new features.

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Financial Systems

eXtremeDB’s unique hybrid row- and columnar-layout (OLTP and time series) coupled with pipelined functions for statistical analysis and scalable distributed database architecture power record-setting STAC-M3 benchmark results.

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Related Resources

White Papers for Professional Developers

Read “The Role of In-Memory Database Systems for Routing Table Management in IP Routers“, examining the in-memory database systems (IMDS) to add RTM development flexibility, data integrity and fault tolerance.

Review our research

Webinars for Professional Developers

We invite you to watch the many on-demand Webinars hosted by McObject database experts, such as Data Acceleration and Business Continuity with McObject’s eXtremeDB Cache, or Embedded Databases: Building In Always On High Availability, illustrating why eXtremeDB is the ideal database for telecom and networking.

Review our list of Webinars

Articles for Professional Developers

In-Memory Database Technology for Telecom – Interview with Manjul Maharishi, ODBMS.org Industry Watch Blog
Change Data Capture in Embedded Databases Embedded Computing Design
Comparing Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency Embedded Computing

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F5

“We determined that integrating a proven data management solution will shorten development and testing, cutting overall development costs. Our experience with eXtremeDB has borne out this prediction”

– Customer since 2003

Spirent

“It was more than twice as fast as the second-place database.”

ViaSat

“After a stringent review process, we selected eXtremeDB because of its scalability; outstanding performance due to its sharding capability; and our confidence in McObject’s ability to offer a solid support team.”

Transaction Network Services

“Our evaluation determined that eXtremeDB outperforms other in-memory database systems, meeting [our] current needs and, just as importantly, accommodating future growth.”

Ribbon Communications

“Leveraging a tightly integrated database engine like McObject’s commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) eXtremeDB offers reliability, development efficiency, and the flexibility to cost-effectively add on new application features in the future.”

(Formerly NextPoint)

Sandvine

“Reliability is absolutely critical to our customers, which was one of the key reasons for choosing McObject’s eXtremeDB.”

Airspan

“eXtremeDB’s speed and efficiency enables Air4G to execute complex scheduler and link-adaptation algorithms, achieving higher capacity and throughput, as well as excellent use of the spectrum.”

Hutchison

“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.”

Compass-EOS

“As an in-memory database system with a highly efficient design and short code path, eXtremeDB HA is able to fill a role in the device’s embedded software that is inherently real-time.”

Best Big Data Analytics & Technology Provider

Best Development Tool & Operating System at IoT World

IoT Vendor of the Year

F5

– Customer since 2003

Spirent

“It was more than twice as fast as the second-place database.”

ViaSat

Transaction Network Services

“Our evaluation determined that eXtremeDB outperforms other in-memory database systems, meeting [our] current needs and, just as importantly, accommodating future growth.”

Ribbon Communications

(Formerly NextPoint)

Sandvine

“Reliability is absolutely critical to our customers, which was one of the key reasons for choosing McObject’s eXtremeDB.”

Airspan

“eXtremeDB’s speed and efficiency enables Air4G to execute complex scheduler and link-adaptation algorithms, achieving higher capacity and throughput, as well as excellent use of the spectrum.”

Hutchison

Compass-EOS

“As an in-memory database system with a highly efficient design and short code path, eXtremeDB HA is able to fill a role in the device’s embedded software that is inherently real-time.”

Best Development Tool & Operating System at IoT World

Best Big Data Analytics & Technology Provider

IoT Vendor of the Year

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Who uses eXtremeDB for network infrastructure and how?

Features to optimize Telecom/Network data management

Who uses eXtremeDB for Network Infrastructure and how do they use it?

Modern telecom and networking devices manage large volumes of complex data and demand stellar low-latency performance and lasting reliability. eXtremeDB has been at the core of network equipment for years. The eXtremeDB data management solution for telecom and networking: real-time performance, high availability, Patricia trie indexes and more!

F5 Networks, Motorola, Airspan, Sandvine, Spirent, Viasat and Ribbon are just a few of the innovators who rely on McObject's database, and comms applications leveraging eXtremeDB include:

We are honored to be used by these outstanding companies (and others):

F5 uses eXtremeDB database for telecom and networking

F5

This leader in application delivery networking uses eXtremeDB as a core software component across its BIG-IP product family. Read the article by McObject's CEO and F5 Networks' VP of product development.

Ribbon

Ribbon (formerly Genband) uses eXtremeDB in fixed-mobile connectivity (FMC) solutions including session border controller. Learn more.

Spirent

The Spirent TestCenter testing solution relies on multiple copies of eXtremeDB, residing at device ports, for real-time data capture. Read the EE Times article.

Airspan Networks has integrated the eXtremeDB as a key software component within Airspan’s new Air4G mobile broadband network base station. Learn more.

Compass-EOS uses eXtremeDB in its Control plane database

The Compass-EOS r10004 core router – the first shipping photonics-based router – integrates eXtremeDB High Availability on its control plane, to support non-stop forwarding (NSF). Learn more.

This fast-growing telecom software provider uses eXtremeDB High Availability and 64-bit editions in its J@nus™ real-time rating and credit control platform. Learn more.

Motorola uses eXtremeDB for SCADA Network Fault Management

Motorola has deployed eXtremeDB within MOSCAD Network Fault Management (NFM), Motorola’s SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) application that is used widely in radio networks to optimize performance, fix problems and prevent downtime. Learn more.

EF Johnson, a division of JVC Kenwood, integrates eXtremeDB High Availability (HA) embedded database to enhance fault-tolerance in its Netelligent™ Infrastructure Systems Project 25 Conventional two-way radio infrastructure for first responders. Learn more.

TNS uses eXtremeDB in their Enum registry database

Transaction Network Services integrated the 64-bit edition of eXtremeDB in TNS’s massively scalable Carrier ENUM Registry technology. Learn more.

"After a stringent review process, we selected eXtremeDB because of its scalability; outstanding performance due to its sharding capability; and our confidence in McObject’s ability to offer a solid support team.”

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Features to optimize Telecom/Network data management

Modern telecom and networking devices manage large volumes of complex data and demand stellar low-latency performance and lasting reliability. eXtremeDB has been at the core of network equipment for years. The eXtremeDB data management solution for telecom and networking: real-time performance, high availability, Patricia trie indexes and more!

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High Availability

Built on the already dependable eXtremeDB, eXtremeDB-HA was designed to power aerospace and defense, process control systems, telecom and network gear, and other mission critical systems with demanding “five-nines” reliability (99.999% up-time).

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Patricia trie and other indexes

The Patricia trie algorithm is optimized to perform quick IP address prefix matching for IP subnet, network or routing table lookups. Review a list of offered indexes, or watch the Patricia trie segment from the Webinar: Using Data Indexes to Boost Performance and Minimize Footprint in Embedded Software

Performance

Core in-memory database system (IMDS) architecture delivers responsiveness measured in microseconds; speed is critical in delivering a competitive user experience.

Efficiency

eXtremeDB provides full DBMS features with minimal CPU, RAM and storage demands. This results in lower hardware component costs, with the savings in manufacturing dropping directly to the bottom line.

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Developer flexibility

Developers can leverage a rich toolset, including event notifications, fast and flexible search methods, support for virtually all data types, and multiple application programming interfaces (SQL ODBC & JDBC, Python, native C/C++, Java & C#/.NET).

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Hybrid Storage

A simple database schema (design) notation adds persistent storage for specified records in an eXtremeDB database. Optimize embedded software for persistence and performance as well as cost (byte-for-byte, disk storage can be cheaper than RAM) and form factor (disk storage can be physically smaller).

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Code quality

Software bugs are time-consuming and expensive. eXtremeDB's type-safe C/C++ API is a key tool that eliminates a common category of error, and its other advanced debugging features add further stability.

Data integrity

ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated and Durable) transactions offer the gold standard in protecting data integrity. Learn about this and other features eXtremeDB provides to maximize database reliability.

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Portable

Broadest OS and RTOS support (including the ability to run without an OS), with source code available. Learn more about eXtremeDB portability techniques for embedded systems data management.

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Proven

eXtremeDB deployments include millions of devices ranging from set-top boxes to MP3 players; from network router databases to financial systems.

White papers about data management solutions

Database management research for professional developers from McObject.

The Role of In-Memory Database Systems for Routing Table Management in IP Routers
This paper examines using the in-memory database systems (IMDS) to add RTM development flexibility, data integrity and fault tolerance.

Portability Techniques for Embedded Systems
Truly portable embedded systems data management code carries its optimization with it, requiring the absolute minimum adaptation to deliver the best performance in new environments.

Will the Real IMDS Please Stand Up?
Real v. imitation in-memory database systems. Understanding the distinction is critical to determining the performance, cost and ultimately the success or failure of a solution.

Distributed Database Systems and Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing
A distributed database system is one in which the data belonging to a single logical database is distributed to two or more physical databases. Beyond that simple definition, there are a confusing number of possibilities for when, how, and why the data is distributed.

Gaining an Extreme Performance Advantage
Financial systems, telecommunications and Cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) are a few of the application types that bump up against the performance limits of database management system (DBMS) software. In-memory database systems (IMDSs) eliminate much of the latency associated with traditional DBMSs, but some applications require higher data durability (i.e. recoverability if volatile memory is disrupted). As a solution, IMDSs offer transaction logging - but critics object that logging re-introduces storage related latency.

Articles about data management solutions

Database management system solutions are our only focus at McObject. We are proud to employ some of the best database management system specialists in the field, and invite you to read these and other published articles.

Change Data Capture in Embedded Databases
Embedded Computing Design CDC in embedded database systems can be implemented in several different ways that are sometimes invisible to applications, and ways that applications can exploit for data sharing, responding to events, and incremental back up. Learn more about Change Data Capture with eXtremeDB.

The Future of Embedded Databases
Insights Tech the Future Challenges and solutions for managing IoT data at rest and in flight.

What is a Distributed Database System?
IoT Agenda.TechTarget An in-depth article about three use cases integral to the deployment of scalable and reliable IoT systems.

Webinars about data management solutions

We invite you to watch these and other on-demand Webinars.

Using Data Indexes to Boost Performance and Minimize Footprint in Embedded Software

The right index can boost lookup speed logarithmically, and reduce RAM and CPU demands. While the B-Tree is the best known index, many others can be more efficient in specific circumstances, such as geospatial/mapping and telecom/networking applications. This Webinar examines less well-known indexes including T-Tree, Hash table, R-Tree, Patricia trie and others. It emphasizes index implementation methods that avoid data duplication, to minimize memory footprint.

View short segments from the Webinar about Patricia trie, T-tree, B-tree, R-tree and Hash indexes.

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Designed specifically as an in-memory database system, not an afterthought.

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Embedded & Real-time Systems

The eXtremeDB in-memory database system was designed specifically for use in resource-constrained, mission-critical and safety-critical embedded systems.

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eXtremeDB enables the developer to easily combine both database paradigms – in-memory and on-disk – in a single database instance.

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Learn more about eXtremeDB in-memory or hybrid in-memory/persistent database for embedded systems

Why is the IMDS an ideal way to reduce memory consumption in embedded systems?

Learn what makes eXtremeDB ideal in real-time systems

High Performance Computing

eXtremeDB in-database analytics offers breakthrough efficiency and can be used with the product’s in-memory database system (IMDS) capability, or independent of it.

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Learn more about the IMDS as a powerful, persistent memory caching solution.

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Learn about hybrid eXtremeDB for Big Data and Analytics or for Financial systems

Review our independently audited benchmark test results to learn how fast a hybrid in-memory database can be

Embedded and/or Client/Server

Fast, flexible, platform independent eXtremeDB is data management wherever you need it, and can be deployed as an embedded database system, and/or as a client/server database system.

eXtremeDB is fast, flexible database management wherever you need it. Learn more.

Hybrid In-memory and/or Persistent

Combine both database paradigms – in-memory and on-disk – in a single database instance. Specifying one set of data as transient (managed in memory), while choosing persistent storage for other record types, requires a simple database schema declaration.

Learn why starting with an in-memory database makes for a better hybrid system.