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NorthScale Named Innovative Company to Watch by Leading Market Research Firm
[October 04, 2010]

NorthScale Named Innovative Company to Watch by Leading Market Research Firm


(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/04/10 -- NorthScale, Inc., the company behind the Membase NoSQL database, today announced that it has been named an IDC Innovative Company to Watch Under $100M in the application development market. This achievement recognizes elastic data management software as a driver of change in application development today, helping companies improve the scalability and performance of web-based applications and cloud computing environments with innovative NoSQL database technology.



Since launching in March, NorthScale has hit all critical milestones to deliver a NoSQL database, Membase Server, that is simple to use, extremely fast, and highly elastic -- with predictability low latency that ensures applications are never kept waiting for data. Launched in June 2010 as an open source project with co-sponsors Zynga and Korea-based NHN, Membase is the database behind FarmVille, managing 500,000 operations per second.

Supporting Quote "We've seen a marked increase in the interest and uptake of Membase, and IDC's recognition underscores the importance of this new class of 'scale-out' data management technology. Judging by heightened demand in the marketplace, customers with interactive web applications are clearly looking for alternatives to complement their relational database solutions, and Membase is well-positioned to meet that need. " Bob Wiederhold, president and CEO, NorthScale Supporting Resources Membase technical whitepaper Membase User Guide Video: Introducing Membase (Length: 1:51) membase.org community site Membase Server public beta download About NorthScaleNorthScale, Inc., the leading provider of elastic data management software, provides products that enable customers to dramatically lower costs while simultaneously improving the scalability and performance of their web applications. NorthScale NoSQL database technology is behind some of the world's busiest web applications: it is the primary database for the popular FarmVille and Café World applications at Zynga; and it provides a shared data management platform for NHN, Korea's largest web application operator with nearly 70 million unique users. Equally at home serving small web applications, NorthScale operates the memcached service behind the Heroku Cloud Platform, where more than a thousand applications benefit from its secure multi-tenant capabilities. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., NorthScale is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and North Bridge Venture Partners.


About IDC's Innovative Companies Under $100M to WatchIDC's "Innovative Companies Under $100M to Watch" reports are a qualitative evaluation of a set of vendors within a specific market -- they are not a stack ranking nor do they represent an exhaustive evaluation of all companies in a segment or a comparative ranking of the companies in the report. IDC solicited entries from vendors of less than $100 million that exemplify specific key trends (selected by analysts) that are driving change in a specific software market. Vendors then submitted case studies that exemplified one of the trends used as the basis for the award. These case studies were evaluated individually and independently by related market analysts across several pre-determined criteria. The teams then met to review the scores. The case studies submitted for review had to demonstrate that the technology was available, able to be implemented and provided real-world benefits to the customer.

<b>Contact </b>Chantal Yang Page One PR for NorthScale Phone: 415-875-7494 Email Contact

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