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.
Learn more about Sharding and elastic scalability
Learn more about eXtremeDB distributed database options
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.
Learn about hybrid data management with eXtremeDB.
Review the white paper, The Role of In-Memory Database Systems for Routing Table Management in IP Routers
Learn about hybrid data management with eXtremeDB.
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.
Learn more about eXtremeSQL
The eXtremeDB type-safe API eliminates database corruption.
Review the white paper, SQL or Navigational Database APIs: Which Best Fits Embedded Systems?
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.
eXtremeDB enables the developer to easily combine both database paradigms – in-memory and on-disk – in a single database instance.
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.
eXtremeDB enables the developer to easily combine both database paradigms – in-memory and on-disk – in a single database instance.
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.
Delivers continuous online incremental backup
Read about other backup options from eXtremeDB
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.
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.
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.
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
See a list of articles
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Who uses eXtremeDB for Network Infrastructure and how do they use it?
Below are a few of the innovators who rely on McObject’s DBMS. eXtremeDB has been used in Telecom/Network systems for years, in:
“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” Read the article
– F5, Customer since 2003
“eXtremeDB offers reliability, development efficiency, and the flexibility to cost-effectively add on new application features in the future.” Read the press release
–Genband (Now Ribbon)
eXtremeDB features to optimize Telecom/Network data management
High Availability
Built on the already dependable eXtremeDB, eXtremeDB-HA was designed to power mission critical systems with demanding “five-nines” reliability (99.999% up-time).
Performance
Core in-memory database system (IMDS) architecture delivers responsiveness measured in microseconds.
Code quality
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.
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.
Efficiency
eXtremeDB provides full DBMS features with minimal CPU, RAM and storage demands, resulting in lower hardware component costs.
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.
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).
Portable
Broadest OS and RTOS support (including the ability to run without an OS), with source code available. Learn more about eXtremeDB portability techniques.
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.