Splice Machine Announces Move to Open Source, Offers Early Access to Developers

June 7, 2016

Seeks contributors, mentors, sponsors and champions to help support Company’s move to take its dual-engine RDBMS open source

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2016 — Splice Machine today announced that its relational database management system, the first dual-engine RDBMS powered by Hadoop and Spark, is moving to open source. The Company is actively seeking contributors and thought leaders in database architecture and distributed systems to guide and support the transition, develop best practices, and help shape next-generation features that best suit the open source community.

“The evolution of Splice Machine from being the first transactional RDBMS on Hadoop, to incorporating Apache Spark as an analytical engine, has been amazing to watch as a member of their Advisory Board,” said Mike Franklin, former Chair of the School of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and incoming Chair of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. “Our AmpLab at Berkeley has initiated many open source projects, including Apache Spark, Apache Mesos and Alluxio (formerly Tachyon). I applaud Splice Machine in taking the leap and joining the open source community.”

Splice Machine will continue to add new features that support a wide range of needs. Splice Machine currently offers:

ANSI SQL-99 coverage, including full DDL and DML

ACID transactions with Snapshot Isolation semantics

In-place updates that scale from one row to millions with a single transaction

Secondary indexing in both unique and non-unique forms

Referential integrity, such as Primary and Foreign key constraints

Join algorithms like broadcast, merge, batch nested loop and more

Resource isolation enabled by a cost-based optimizer

“Splice Machine has been a long-time contributor to the HBase Community,” said Michael Stack, Apache HBase Project Management Committee Member and Engineer at Cloudera. “I am excited to see them joining the open source world and I look forward to helping them through this process.”

Apache HBase, an open-source distributed database modeled after Google’s BigTable, is one of the key building blocks of Splice Machine and is what enables real-time updates on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

“Splice Machine is pushing boundaries with both HBase and Spark – for the good of both communities’ users,” said Nick Dimiduk, PMC member Apache HBase, and author of HBase in Action. “I’m proud to help them take the next step into open source.”

“We are very excited to make the transition to open source and build a larger community around Splice Machine,” said Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO, Splice Machine. “Our whole team is eagerly anticipating the contributions that going open source can enable. We also look forward to being more active within the open source communities beyond our participation around HBase and Spark.”

Splice Machine is currently looking for contributors, mentors, sponsors and champions. Anyone interested in participating should go here.

For more information about Splice Machine, please visit splicemachine.com.

About Splice Machine

Splice Machine is the provider of the first RDBMS powered by Hadoop and Spark. Leveraging in-memory technology from Spark and scale-out capabilities from Hadoop, Splice Machine powers new applications and can offload existing Oracle ® and Teradata™ databases, delivering 10-20x performance improvements at one-fourth the cost. The Splice Machine RDBMS provides exceptional performance for simultaneous analytical and operational workloads, enabling companies to unlock the insights from their Big Data to make faster, better decisions.