Apple bought the company FoundationDB, has developed one of the most effective on the market database management system NoSQL. The cost of the transaction and the terms were not disclosed.
FoundationDB was founded in 2009 by CEO David Rosenthal, Nick and Dave Scherer Lavezzo. In two rounds of investment company raised $ 22.7 million from SV Angel, Sutter Hill and CrunchFund.
FoundationDB software solutions have become popular due to the high speed ACID-compliant transactions, combined with easy scalability. Startup gained fame in 2012, demonstrating its approach to the creation of a modern DBMS NoSQL conference TechCrunch under the motto «NoSQL, YesACID».
The performance of the developed engine startup is really impressive. The latest decision FoundationDB, submitted at the end of last year, scaled to 14.4 million random writes per second.
The official website of the company thanked the members for their support of its software for five years and announced the termination of access to FoundationDB.
Apple acquired FoundationDB to improve service App Store, iTunes Store and iBooks Store.Millions currently available in the App Store applications and billions of users served forcing Apple to constantly improve their systems.
Asked to comment on the deal in Cupertino standard answer: "From time to time Apple buys smaller technology companies, but we usually do not discuss these acquisitions and plans for development".