Raima
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| Industry | Database, Embedded Systems |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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Key people
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Chief Executive Officer – Steinar Sande |
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| Owner | Raima Holding LLC |
| Website | Raima |
Raima is a multinational technology and consultant company headquartered in Seattle, USA. The company was founded in 1982. Raima develops, sells and supports in-memory and disk-based Relational Database Management Systems that can either be embedded within the application or be in a client/server mode. The company's focus is on OLTP databases with high-intensity transactional processing. Their cross-platform, small-footprint products are made to collect, store, manage and move data.
Raima was founded in Seattle, Washington USA in 1982 by two software engineering researchers from Boeing, Randy Merilatt and Wayne Warren, who saw the benefits that database management technology could provide for software application developers in the rapidly growing microcomputer industry. In 1984 Raima released one of the first embedded database management systems for microcomputer applications written in the C programming language. Early contracts with companies like ROLM (now part of IBM), Texas Instruments, Microsoft, ADP and others contributed to the development of the Raima Database Manager (RDM) product family.
Some of the more significant Raima product releases are shown below.
In June, 1999 Raima was acquired by Centura Software (formerly Gupta). In the summer of 2002, the Norwegian company Birdstep Technology acquired the Raima assets from Centura and operated Raima as a separate business unit out of Seattle. In the summer of 2010, the Raima management team purchased Raima from Birdstep, forming the now privately held Raima Incorporated.
Raima delivers multiple database solutions: Raima Database Manager, which is a cross-platform database designed for distributed architecture in resource-constrained environments, and RDM Server, which is an embeddable database management system employing a client/server architecture, designed for enterprise class environments.
Raima database products are used in a wide range of applications for business critical data transactions, flight control systems, military equipment, data backup solutions, medical equipment, routers and switches and more. Boeing, General Dynamics, General Electric (Alstom), Mitsubishi, Schneider Electric and Siemens are examples of customers who embed RDM products in their applications.
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