For over a decade, our team built many innovative web apps, frameworks and enterprise software services, for high techs, Fortune 500′s and Government, frequently facing the pain and cost of big-data or diverse-data issues. GenieDB began as a coffee table discussion in late 2007 amongst our engineers to solve a client’s challenge – to have a 30 node read-write cluster of MySQL servers spanning two continents – running on commodity hardware, with neither replication lag nor the benefit of a billion dollar budget.
Dozens of alternative databases and eventual consistency ‘NoSQL’ cloud datastores exist. We looked at every one, but none enjoyed the expected data consistency, availability and partition tolerance that enterprise software generally demands. Faced with a seemingly impossible challenge, GenieDB emerged: A layered ‘C+AP architecture’ that mirrors the way the brain creates an immediate, globally consistent view of our senses arriving in unique locations at different times in the Thalamus, parallel to committing the experience to permanent storage, in multiple places, long after we’ve reacted to the deluge of initial sensory ‘updates’.
At first, starting as an R&D project in London, we were known only to academics and analysts. In 2010 we became the youngest company to speak at Under the Radar and Oracle Open World. Two years on and we are established in both US and Europe having attracted an exceptional team who have built some of the most innovated distributed database techonologies and businesses of the last decade.