NuoDB Announces Support for Docker and Releases NuoDB 2.4 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 22 -- NuoDB, the database for cloud-enabled global applications, today announced formal support of Docker as an approved implementation platform. NuoDB's distributed database design aligns with the architectural requirements for container-based deployment. Coinciding with this announcement is the general availability of NuoDB Release 2.4, which delivers advanced management capabilities, expands NuoDB's enterprise-class SQL support, and streamlines database administration.

Expanding native support for Docker

As more organizations embrace containers as a development and deployment platform, they often struggle to reconcile Docker's inherent administrative benefits, resource efficiencies, and horizontal scaling with the monolithic, rigid, and deeply physical nature of traditional databases. In contrast, NuoDB's Durable Distributed Cache (DDC) architecture enables customers to add capacity on-demand across multiple hosts, containers, and even data centers, making it easier for the database to work naturally within and with containers to deliver an elastic, transactional data management service for Docker.

This integration exploits that natural affinity to ensure customers deploying on Docker can rely on a robust database platform built around the same principles that are driving Docker's widespread adoption. Specifically, NuoDB enables:

• Container mobility and on-demand capacity at the data layer
• Automatic cross-container caching of database data
• Operational and administrative capabilities such as security and backup that have been designed expressly for the container environment

NuoDB's native support for Docker provides customers with a wide range of deployment options based on their requirements. As a network of peers capable of functioning within a hybrid environment, NuoDB's processes can operate wholly within Docker containers or split between containers and physical servers. This flexibility extends also to private, public, or hybrid cloud deployments.

NuoDB Release 2.4

Coinciding with this announcement is the general availability of NuoDB Release 2.4, which delivers advanced management capabilities, expands NuoDB's enterprise-class SQL support, and streamlines database administration.

In addition, customers can take advantage of a new online backup feature, which creates a "hot copy" of the current state of a database without shutting down any of the database processes. This creates a transactionally consistent copy of the archive and journal of a database with no interruption of service. The database continues running and transactions keep processing, even in a single host database.

More details on specific features can be found on the NuoDB TechBlog.

About NuoDB

NuoDB's purpose-built SQL database combines the simplicity, rigor, and reliability of a traditional relational database with the elasticity, agility, and global accessibility provided by the cloud.

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Source: NuoDB