Raima
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| Industry | Database, Embedded Systems |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Key people | Chief Executive Officer – Steinar Sande |
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| Owner | Raima Holding LLC |
| Website | Raima |
Raima is a multinational technology and consultant company headquartered in Seattle, USA. The company was founded in 1982. Raima develops, sells and supports In Memory, as well as disk based Relational Database Management Systems that can either be embedded within the application or be in a client/server mode. The company's focus is on OLTP databases with high-intensity transactional processing. Their products are made to collect, store, manage and move data.[1]
History
Raima was founded in Seattle, Washington USA in 1982 by two software engineering researchers from Boeing, Randy Merilatt and Wayne Warren, who saw the benefits that database management technology could provide for software application developers in the rapidly growing microcomputer industry. In 1984 Raima released one of the first embedded database management systems for microcomputer applications written in the C programming language. Early contracts with companies like ROLM (now part of IBM), Texas Instruments, Microsoft, ADP and others contributed to the development of the Raima Database Manager (RDM) product family.[2]
Some of the more significant Raima product releases are shown below.
- 1984 - Raima releases db_VISTA (currently named, "RDM Embedded") version 1. A single-user, network-model database management system (DBMS) for C language applications on MS-DOS and Unix.
- 1986 - db_VISTA version 2 is released adding a portable (file locks stored in a lock file), multi-user DBMS with transaction level database consistency.
- 1987 - db_QUERY released providing the first SQL-like query tool for accessing a network-model database.
- 1988 - db_VISTA version 3 is released where a system-wide lock manager process manages all file locks.
- 1990 - Raima releases db_VISTA for Microsoft Windows.
- 1992 - Raima Database Server version 1 (aka "Velocis" and, today, "RDM Server") is introduced providing a client/server DBMS with record-level locking and SQL designed to be tightly integrated with sophisticated applications written in C. Multiple platform support for MS-DOS/Novell NetWare, OS/2 and Unix. The first full-featured DBMS to support the ODBC SQL API as its native SQL API.
- 1996 - Velocis 1.0: Hot online backup
- 1998 - Velocis 2.1: True multi-threading, application link
- 2006 - RDM Server 7.2: Dynamic DDL
- 2009 - RDM Server 8.3: SQL triggers & enhanced join syntax
- 2010 - RDM Embedded 10.0 : Multi-core computer support using Transactional File Servers with high performance, MVCC-based read-only transactions.
- 2011 - SQL for RDM Embedded 10.1
- 2012 - ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET support for RDM 11.0
- 2013 – RDM 12.0 – Database cursors, shared memory protocol memory allocation limitation, enhanced SQL optimization support, three new data types, bulk insert API, “dirty read” isolation level, enhanced encryption, selective replication and notification.
- 2016 – RDM 14.0, consolidating both source codes in RDM and RDM Server to one source code.
In June, 1999 Raima was acquired by Centura Software (formerly Gupta). In the summer of 2002, the Norwegian company Birdstep Technology acquired the Raima assets from Centura and operated Raima as a separate business unit out of Seattle. In the summer of 2010, the Raima management team purchased Raima from Birdstep, forming the now privately held Raima Incorporated.
Products and Services
Raima delivers multiple database solutions: RDM, which is a cross-platform database designed for distributed architecture in resource-constrained environments, and RDM Server, which is an embeddable database management system employing a client/server architecture, designed for enterprise class environments.
Applications
Raima database products are used in a wide range of applications for business critical data transactions, flight control systems, military equipment, data backup solutions, medical equipment, routers and switches and more. Boeing, General Dynamics, General Electric (Alstom), Mitsubishi, Schneider Electric and Siemens are examples of customers who embed RDM products in their applications.
References
- ↑ "Database Specialist for Data Management". raima.com. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
- ↑ "Raima, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Businessweek.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.