The story
From 1991 through 1997 the Mr. RT project was an in-memory database research project, conducted by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute a government-funded research organization in South Korea. Altibase was incorporated in 1999.
Altibase acquired an in-memory database engine from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in February 2000, and commercialized the database in October of the same year.
In 2001, Altibase changed the name of the in-memory database product from "Spiner" to "Altibase" in 2001. In 2004, Altibase integrated the in-memory database with a disk-resident database to create a hybrid DBMS, released version 4.0 and renamed it as ALTIBASE HDB. Altibase released version 5.5.1 and 6.1.1 in 2012, version 6.3.1 in November 2013, and 6.5.1 in May 2015. Altibase claims that this is the world's first hybrid DBMS. Altibase released its open source edition version 7.1, however, closed the source in 2023.
In August 2023, Altibase released its cloud-optimized version 7.3.
Awards
In 2006, Received the Presidential Award at the Korea Software Awards
In 2007, Selected as World-Class Product by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy
In 2009, Awarded the Outstanding Product Award in China's Telecommunications Industry
In 2009, Received Outstanding Product Award at the China Billing China 2009 Telecommunication Industry Awards
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In 2010, Commendation from the Minister of Knowledge Economy for Technological Practicalization
In 2011, Received the Grand Prize at the 10th Software Enterprise Competitiveness Award
In 2011, Selected as Top 10 Emerging Technologies and received Special Award at the Korea Technology Grand Prize
In 2012, Awarded for Contributions to Military Manpower Administration
In 2014~2016, Included in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational DBMS
In 2015, Selected as Outstanding BSS by China Fujian Mobile.
In 2023, Awarded as the Excellent Research and Development Institution by the Korean Ministry Science and ICT
In 2023, Won the Global Premium Commercial Software Presidential Award at the 9th Global Commercial Software Grand Exhibition in Korea
Release
The first version, called Spiner, was released in 2000 for commercial use. It took half of the in-memory DBMS market share in South Korea.
In 2002 the second version was released renamed to Altibase v2.0. By 2003, Altibase v3.0 was released and it entered the Chinese market.
Released version 4.0 with hybrid architecture, combining RAM and disk databases, was released in 2004.
In 2005 Altibase began working with Chinese telecommunications providers for billing systems,
and some financial companies in Taiwan, China, for home trading systems.
The software was certified by the Telecommunications Technology Association.
The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs gave it an award in 2006.
Offices in China and United States opened in 2009.
In 2011, version 5.5.1 was renamed it to HDB (for "hybrid database"). The Altibase Data Stream product for complex event processing was renamed DSM.
The product received a Korean technology award.
Altibase introduced certification services.
In 2012, HDB Zeta and Extreme were announced, and DSM renamed to CEP.
In 2013, yet another variant called XDB was announced,
and the company received ISO/IEC 20000 certification.
In 2018, Altibase went open source.
Altibase went open source in February, 2018. Altibase Corp has made the decision to discontinue the Altibase 7.1 open source edition, effective March 17, 2023. As a result, the open-source edition of Altibase 7.1 will no longer be available for download or use. Altibase released version 7.3 in September, 2023, its notable feature is the world’s first hybrid partition, allowing data to be stored in both memory and on disk at the partition level. Version 7.3 also added parallel processing capabilities for high-speed performance in both partitioned and non-partitioned scenarios. Improving potential bottlenecks associated with Commit and logging that impact transaction performance, version 7.3 has achieved an approximately 490% enhancement in performance compared to previous versions.
From Wikipedia’s article on Altibase, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4