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The story behind Raima

We are developers who believe all developers everywhere should be able to leverage data with fast, lightweight, reliable, and intuitive data management solutions to achieve their mission-critical goals regardless of hardware or software limitations.

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Our core values

Innovation

Building the future of data management takes some out-of-the-box thinking. We see every project as an opportunity to push boundaries.

Persistence

Success requires hard work and dedication. At Raima, we take on every challenge with the enthusiasm it takes to get the hard jobs done.

Collaboration

Big projects require countless moving parts. We work hard to foster communication and teamwork with each other and our clients.

Customer commitment

We take pride in our transparency and accountability and in doing what it takes to help every customer reach their goals.

1982

Company founded as “SysJen, Inc.” in Renton, Washington USA by former Boeing software engineers Randy Merilatt and Wayne Warren on November 12, 1982 to provide contract software development and consulting services.

2024

RaimaDB 16.0: Faster, easier to use, Autosar support, improved Control Center. Focus on usability and market position. RDM renamed to RaimaDB.

2022

RDM 15.2: Raima to Raima replication, hot backup, and enhanced encryption. Diagnostics for more specific information to be obtained from the Raima sub- systems. Raima to Cloud replication through SymmetricDS.

2021

RDM 15.0: Speed, ease of use and new functionality. Custom generated time series support has been added to RDM. Also FFT support for data transformations. An administrative GUI is introduced.

2020

RDM 14.2: Continuous focus on ease of use, portability, and speed. Multi-user Focused Storage Format: the updated database file format increase database throughput through a focus on locking contention prevention. Extended and improved geospatial functionality and a newly supported REST-ful interface has been added to the database server functionality.

2018

RDM 14.1: Focuses on ease of use, portability, and speed. With the new file format, you can develop once and deploy anywhere. Performance is increased by over 50-100% depending on the use case when compared to previous RDM releases. Extended and improved SQL support, snapshots, and geospatial functionality.

2016

RDM 14.0: C based database cursors API, SQL PL/SQL Stored procedures support, new portable database file format, smaller and more efficient encoded database, dynamic DDL, redesigned in-memory implementation, numerous performance enhancements.

2013

RDM 12.0: Database cursors, New Core data types: date/time/timestamp, decimal and guid, database encryption, selective replication, shared memory transport, Android support + SQL: better optimization statistics, rowid primary/foreign keys, improved order/group by performance.

2012

RDM Embedded 11.0: ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET support

RDM Embedded 11.1: Hash indexes, C++ interface.

RDM Server 8.4: Hash indexes, improved JDBC, ADO.NET support.

November 12: Raima celebrates its 30th birthday!

2001

RDM 6: Mirroring, Unicode support, plus rudimentary SQL with ODBC interface.

Birdstep Technologies acquires Raima from Centura.

Velocis name is changed to “RDM Server”.

RDM is changed to “RDM Embedded”.

1993

Raima Database Server (RDS) version 1 is introduced providing a client/server DBMS with record-level locking and SQL. Multiple platform support for MS-DOS/Novell Netware, OS/2 and Unix. The first full-featured DBMS to support the Microsoft ODBC SQL API as its native SQL API.

db_VISTA name is changed to “Raima Data Manager” (RDM).

RDS name is changed to “Velocis”.

1991

Raima grants exclusive rights to Ajalon Corp. to port, sell and support db_VISTA III on the Apple Macintosh.

Raima is #292 on the 1991 Inc. 500 Index of the fastest growing private companies.

Raima Object Manager (ROM) is released for C++.

1990

Raima pioneers business relationship with Russia: Seattle Times.

Raima is #179 on the 1990 Inc. 500 Index of the fastest growing private companies.

Customer contracts initiate development on what will become the Raima Database Server (RDS).

1988

db_VISTA III is released utilizing a system-wide lock manager process.

db_VISTA 2 renamed to db_FILE and released as lower-end DBMS product.

db_REVISE released providing ability to alter a db_VISTA schema and revise existing databases to accommodate the schema changes.

Raima acquires Tenon and the Tenon Worksheet C Library (WKS Library 2.0).

1984

Former Microsoft marketing executive, Steve Smith, joins company to ramp up marketing and sales of the DBMS.

Company name changed to “Raima Corporation”.

db_VISTA version 1 is introduced. A single-user, network-model, royalty-free DBMS for C language applications on MS-DOS and Unix. The first microcomputer DBMS designed exclusively for use with C.

1982

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2012

RDM Embedded 11.0: ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET support

RDM Embedded 11.1: Hash indexes, C++ interface.

RDM Server 8.4: Hash indexes, improved JDBC, ADO.NET support.

November 12: Raima celebrates its 30th birthday!

2001

RDM 6: Mirroring, Unicode support, plus rudimentary SQL with ODBC interface.

Birdstep Technologies acquires Raima from Centura.

Velocis name is changed to “RDM Server”.

RDM is changed to “RDM Embedded”.

1993

db_VISTA name is changed to “Raima Data Manager” (RDM).

RDS name is changed to “Velocis”.

1991

Raima grants exclusive rights to Ajalon Corp. to port, sell and support db_VISTA III on the Apple Macintosh.

Raima is #292 on the 1991 Inc. 500 Index of the fastest growing private companies.

Raima Object Manager (ROM) is released for C++.

1990

Raima pioneers business relationship with Russia: Seattle Times.

Raima is #179 on the 1990 Inc. 500 Index of the fastest growing private companies.

Customer contracts initiate development on what will become the Raima Database Server (RDS).

1988

db_VISTA III is released utilizing a system-wide lock manager process.

db_VISTA 2 renamed to db_FILE and released as lower-end DBMS product.

db_REVISE released providing ability to alter a db_VISTA schema and revise existing databases to accommodate the schema changes.

Raima acquires Tenon and the Tenon Worksheet C Library (WKS Library 2.0).

1984

Former Microsoft marketing executive, Steve Smith, joins company to ramp up marketing and sales of the DBMS.

Company name changed to “Raima Corporation”.

db_VISTA version 1 is introduced. A single-user, network-model, royalty-free DBMS for C language applications on MS-DOS and Unix. The first microcomputer DBMS designed exclusively for use with C.

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