TransLattice

About TransLattice

TransLattice operated as a specialized software company focused on geographically distributed database management systems. Founded in 2007 by Frank Huerta, Michael Lyle, and Robert Geiger, the firm officially launched in 2010, positioning itself within the emergent NewSQL market. The founding team brought a history of collaboration, having previously worked together at Recourse Technologies, a security company successfully acquired by Symantec. This background, particularly CEO Frank Huerta's experience in founding and exiting a tech company, provided a strong entrepreneurial foundation for the venture.

The company's operations were centered in Santa Clara, California, from where it developed and marketed its core product, the TransLattice Elastic Database (TED). TED was engineered as a geographically distributed relational database management system (RDBMS). Its design allowed a single, cohesive database to operate across multiple nodes, which could be physical servers, virtual machines, or cloud instances spread across different locations. This architecture was created to provide high availability and fault tolerance, eliminating single points of failure and ensuring data was located closer to its point of use. For clients, this translated into improved application performance, enhanced system reliability, and reduced data retrieval times over wide-area networks.

TransLattice targeted enterprise clients with applications requiring robust, scalable, and geographically dispersed data infrastructure. The business model revolved around licensing its sophisticated database platform to these organizations. A notable milestone was the 2013 acquisition of StormDB, a database-as-a-service startup. Following this acquisition, TransLattice open-sourced a clustered PostgreSQL fork under the name Postgres-XL in 2014, contributing to the broader database technology ecosystem. Despite raising $20.2 million in funding and making strategic acquisitions, TransLattice ceased operations around 2016. Reports indicate the company was unable to construct a sustainable business model around its advanced database management system, and its assets were ultimately sold to Qualcomm.