What NuoDB does

NuoDB is a distributed SQL database provider founded in 2010 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company offers a single product—a distributed SQL database built on an architecture that separates Transaction Engines (TEs), which handle query processing, from Storage Managers (SMs), which handle data persistence. This separation enables ACID compliance across multiple distributed nodes while supporting dynamic scale-out and scale-in, continuous availability through multi-node fault tolerance, and deployment across private clouds, public clouds, hybrid environments, and multi-cloud topologies. The product is marketed under the Dassault Systèmes (3DS) brand and is positioned for enterprise organizations running mission-critical, high-frequency OLTP workloads and for companies migrating legacy SQL applications to distributed cloud architectures.

The go-to-market motion is enterprise field sales, executed primarily through Dassault Systèmes' broader sales organization rather than NuoDB's own. Revenue mechanics are usage-based consumption: customers pay for database resources based on actual usage, with the ability to scale resources dynamically to align costs with workload demand. Dedicated documentation, support, and blog channels support technical evaluation and post-sale engagement. NuoDB has raised approximately $85 million across multiple funding rounds between 2010 and 2018 from investors including Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners, Dassault Systèmes, Temenos, and Converge. The most recent disclosed round was $30.55M in December 2018, led by Temenos.

NuoDB operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary and product line within Dassault Systèmes' enterprise software portfolio. Headcount is reported at 51–100 employees, and the leadership team consists of CEO Bob Walmsley, CTO Ariff Kassam, CMO Josh Verrill, SVP of Engineering Mark Kaufman, and director Gary Morgenthaler. No customer logos, revenue figures, or named accounts are disclosed in the source material, and no AI/ML capabilities are described.

Name

NuoDB

Website

https://nuodb.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

NuoDB provides a distributed SQL database for enterprises running mission-critical OLTP workloads. Operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, it delivers cloud-agnostic deployment with ACID compliance, dynamic scaling, and continuous availability.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Distributed SQL Database

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

NewSQL / Distributed SQL Databases (HDAEAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Managed Databases (Relational/NoSQL/In-Memory DBaaS) (HDABAAAE), Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platforms (HDAEAAAN)

Keywords

• Distributed SQL database
• Cloud database services
• OLTP workload management
• Multi-cloud deployment
• Database management software

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Cloud Database Services: Usage-based consumption model where customers pay for database resources based on actual usage. Organizations scale resources out and in dynamically, paying only for the resources their applications use. This creates a cost-efficient model aligned with variable workload patterns.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

NuoDB provides a distributed SQL database that enables enterprise-grade applications to run in any cloud environment. Its architecture separates query processing (Transaction Engines) from data persistence (Storage Managers), delivering ACID compliance, continuous availability, and dynamic scale-out/scale-in across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployments for high-frequency OLTP workloads.

Product overview

NuoDB is a single unified product—a Distributed SQL Database offering. It provides a distributed, multi-node SQL architecture with Transaction Engines (TEs) and Storage Managers (SMs) that work together to ensure ACID compliance across multiple nodes. The product enables enterprises to migrate existing SQL applications to a distributed architecture while supporting deployment in private and public clouds, hybrid environments, and across multiple clouds. Key capabilities include scalability (dynamic scale out and in based on demand), availability (fault tolerance through multi-node deployment), and flexibility (deploy in any cloud environment without vendor lock-in). Organizations only pay for the resources their application uses, reducing total cost of ownership.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• NuoDB Distributed SQL Database

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Dassault SystèmescoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerNuoDB operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary and product line under Dassault Systèmes. The distributed SQL database is fully integrated into Dassault Systèmes' enterprise software portfolio, marketed and distributed under the 3DS brand. This is a parent-subsidiary relationship where NuoDB's technology is embedded within Dassault Systèmes' broader cloud and enterprise software offerings.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• CockroachDB: CockroachDB is a leading distributed SQL database built on PostgreSQL, offering horizontal scaling, ACID compliance, and multi-cloud deployment — a direct competitor to NuoDB in the NewSQL/horizontally-scalable OLTP category targeting enterprise workloads.
• TiDB (PingCAP): TiDB is an open-source, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database with horizontal scalability and strong consistency, competing directly with NuoDB for HTAP and high-scale OLTP use cases.
• YugabyteDB: YugabyteDB is an open-source distributed SQL database providing PostgreSQL-compatible APIs with global distribution and ACID transactions, directly competing with NuoDB for cloud-native, mission-critical OLTP workloads.

Emerging players

• Vitess: Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, increasingly positioned for distributed SQL workloads — an emerging open-source alternative that overlaps with NuoDB's scale-out relational database value proposition.
• FoundationDB: FoundationDB, now stewarded by the Linux Foundation after Apple's stewardship, is an open-source distributed database supporting transactional key-value and SQL layers — a relevant adjacent technology that competes for distributed, strongly-consistent database workloads.
• PlanetScale (MySQL-compatible): PlanetScale offers a serverless, distributed MySQL-compatible platform with branching and sharding — an emerging cloud-native competitor in the horizontally-scalable relational database category overlapping NuoDB's target use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud Spanner: Google's globally distributed, strongly consistent relational database service offering ACID transactions across regions — a hyperscaler incumbent with overlapping value proposition to NuoDB's distributed SQL offering, albeit cloud-native rather than cloud-agnostic.
• MariaDB: MariaDB offers distributed SQL capabilities (MariaDB Xpand) targeting enterprise scale-out workloads with MySQL compatibility — a broader incumbent in the relational database space that overlaps with NuoDB's migration and scale-out use cases.
• Microsoft Azure SQL Database: Microsoft's fully managed relational database service offering elastic scale, high availability, and multi-region capabilities — a broad incumbent in cloud-managed SQL with overlapping enterprise OLTP positioning to NuoDB.
• Amazon Aurora: Amazon's managed relational database with distributed storage and read replicas targeting high-scale OLTP — a broad cloud incumbent competing for many of the same enterprise database workloads as NuoDB.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nuodb
• Facebookfacebook.com/NUODB

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds8 records

Investors6 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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