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A reliable database for the energy industry

At the very core of fast, flexible embedded and real-time systems.

eXtremeDB is a proven solution for managing the “always on” demands of energy and smart grid database management.

Up and down the energy industry supply chain, emerging solutions are generating a flood of data that must be captured and analyzed.

With help from McObject’s eXtremeDB, optimization technology can dramatically boost utilities’ power generation yields. Distribution networks can become self-healing and even bi-directional, enabling end-users to contribute power back to the grid. Buildings, factories and residences can fine-tune their consumption through intelligent control systems.

eXtremeDB/rt is the first (and currently only) hard real-time deterministic database management system, ideal for sensor data fusion. Learn what makes a DBMS hard real-time.

eXtremeDB is found in military, satellite and safety systems around the world that can’t afford to fail. Learn about High Availability for 99.999% uptime.  

eXtremeDB is a proven solution for managing the “always on” demands of energy and smart grid data management.

Why is the energy industry choosing the eXtremeDB product family for systems ranging from nuclear plant safety to solar power optimization?

Reliability

Robust

Software coding errors can compromise safety. eXtremeDB’s type-safe API is a key tool that eliminates a common category of bugs.  Other advanced debugging features add the further stability demanded by smart grid data management.

Data integrity

Database system reliability encompasses protection from loss of database availability, safeguards on data integrity, and resistant to database corruption caused by application software defects. Read a list of features to look for in a reliable database management system.

Fault-tolerance

Power generation and transmission applications are mission-critical. The eXtremeDB High Availability module provides a proven, “always on” database solution that can survive hardware and/or software failure.

Multi-layered security

eXtremeDB offers built-in data management security at rest and in transit. Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) on the database page level detects any unauthorized modification to stored data.  AES encryption employs a user-provided cipher to prevent access or tampering.

Performance

Core in-memory database system

With a core in-memory database system (IMDS) architecture eXtremeDB delivers responsiveness measured in microseconds, which is critical for applications that are responsible for grid or plant safety, or for making real-time decisions to optimize energy production.

Multi-core optimized

eXtremeDB Multi-version Concurrency Control (MVCC) transaction manager boosts speed and scalability in multi-threaded, multi-core environments, which are increasingly the norm in energy industry applications.

Efficient

With a tiny footprint eXtremeDB is a practical choice for field-based devices that incorporate minimal hardware resources.  Also runs in Kernel mode

Native APIs

eXtremeDB supports standard SQL/ODBC/JDBC, but also offers faster native C/C++, Java and C# (.NET) APIs. Information is stored as C/C++ data types (including structures, vectors and arrays), eliminating the overhead of conversion to SQL data types.

Scalability

Distributed query processing

Distributed query processing across multiple servers, CPUs and/or CPU cores accelerates performance – dramatically, in some cases – via parallel execution of database operations and by harnessing the combined processing power, memory and I/O bandwidth of many nodes rather than just one

Sharding

eXtremeDB offers elastic scalability when databases are partitioned (“sharded”), with each partition/shard managed by an instance of the DBMS server. Shards are typically distributed on a storage array (which may be a SAN) – with each server keeping a CPU core busy – or distributed across different physical servers with their own storage systems.

Flexibility

A hybrid persistent and in-memory database

eXtremeDB is a hybrid database offering the strengths of the on-disk and all-in-memory approaches to data management in a single database system. Applications can blend persistent (i.e. flash or hard disk) and in-memory storage, enabling optimization for persistence and performance as well as cost and form factor.  eXtremeDB began as an in-memory database system. Learn why this is important.

Columnar / Hybrid layout

Traditional DBMSs bring rows of data into the CPU cache for processing. But time series data is naturally columnar, and handled more efficiently by a column-based layout. eXtremeDB stores time series data with a columnar layout, and “normal” data with a conventional row-based layout. The result is higher performance, resulting from a database system that best leverages the CPU cache speed and avoids costly (in performance terms) fetches from main memory. 

Portable

The energy industry demands flexibility for growth.  eXtremeDB offers the broadest support for OSs and RTOSs (including the ability to run without an OS).  Source code available.

Open replication

Facilitates fine-grained data-sharing with enterprise systems (such as energy companies’ billing, analysis and commerce applications) with eXtremeDB Data Relay.

Proven

 

We’re honored to be used by companies that lead their industries. See a partial client list.

 

Find eXtremeDB in over 30,000,000 deployments worldwide.

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.”

GoldenSource

“In addition to speed and the ability to process large quantities of data, clients also require richer data sets for golden price generation, which is what  eXtremeDB will help us do outstandingly well.”

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.”

Sandvine

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

TradeStation

eXtremeDB Financial Edition’s performance and fault-tolerance make it a natural fit for database processing in the enhanced order-execution system.”

BAE Systems

“Among other benefits, eXtremeDB makes it simple to configure databases and tables using the product’s schema compiler.”

Boeing

eXtremeDB High Availability will provide the highest degree of reliability for the Apache’s mission-critical systems.”

Schneider Electric

“In addition to its positive impact on our business, eXtremeDB is well-designed to solve the unique development challenges of data management for real-time embedded software.”

Genband

“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.”

Dalian Commodity Exchange

eXtremeDB-64 contributes significantly to trading platform robustness, with a proven database transaction mechanism that is optimized for high throughput.”

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.”

Related resources

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White Papers for Professional Developers

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No other database management system offers more to developers.

Hybrid data storage

Based on an IMDS tiny footprint eXtremeDB databases can be all-in-memory, all-persistent, or have a mix of in-memory tables and persistent tables with a simple database schema.

Active Replication Fabric

Active Replication Fabric™ offers reliable IoT database management by solving 5 key challenges for developers.

A hard real-time option

eXtremeDB/rt is the first and only deterministic embedded database management system for mission- and safety-critical hard real-time applications.

Pipelining

Pipelining combines built-in vector-based statistical functions into assembly lines of processing for time series data, with the output of one function becoming input for the next.

Row & columnar flexibility 

eXtremeDB offers columnar data layout for time series data. Combine row-based and column-based layouts in order to best leverage the CPU cache speed. Learn how.

Embedded and/or client server

Fast, flexible 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.