History

1982: Automated Technology Associates (ATA) established in Indianapolis, USA, as a developer of high-performance software for manufacturing industry.
1983: ATA engineering team recognises the severe shortcomings of disk databases for high-performance systems and so designs an in-memory relational database called ATDB.
1984: Experience with in-memory relational databases exposes the need to develop a post-relational in-memory database. This offers vastly improved performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency. ERDB (Entity Related DataBase) developed and deployed as an embedded solution inside ATA’s 900+ manufacturing installations.
1985: Benchmarks confirm ERDB as fastest database in the world.
1990: ERDB unbundled from ATA application suite and packaged as a stand-alone product for software developers.
1991: ATDB in-memory relational database now no longer required, having been surpassed by ERDB. ATDB rights sold to Hewlett-Packard, although ATA continues to support/transition existing ATDB customer base.
1993: ATA opens European subsidiary, based in UK.
1995: Hewlett-Packard signs first major Worldwide OEM agreement for ERDB. ERDB is built into a HP telecom network management solution. Several hundred systems sold to date, all running 24×7 with zero database failures.
1996: Major European mobile phone operator selects ERDB for all their mission-critical applications. To date, around 200 systems have been installed, running on a 24×7 unattended basis, with zero database failures.
1997: ATA spins off European subsidiary to become an independent distributor of ERDB plus a portfolio of other high-performance data management solutions from other companies. New company called Automated Technology Europe Ltd (ATE).
1998: ERDB patented.
2003: Version 9.0 of ERDB (rebranded Xcelerix) with SQL launched, combining the power and reliability of ERDB with the flexibility of traditional SQL databases.
2004: ATE acquires NexQL distributorship for Europe. NexQL is a high-performance query system for very large databases, measured in Terabytes or Petabytes. NexQL makes it possible to query a Petabyte database at the same speed as a Megabyte database.
2005: ATE acquires a minority stake in the Ancelus embedded database company. Ancelus is an extremely compact database with a tiny footprint requiring less than 20KB of overhead, so is ideal for embedded devices. It’s expandable to 2 billion tables/columns/rows, using a native 64-bit design.
2006: ATE appointed a distributor for the Crossroads range of data security systems. Crossroads systems make it possible to secure databases against unauthorised intrusion or misuse by authorised users.
2007: ATE forms Celeram to better represent the wide spread of solutions offered. Name derived from ‘Celera’ (Latin for ‘speed’) and RAM (to represent the use of memory rather than disk in many of the solutions provided).
2010: Ancelus patented
2010: Celeram appointed European distributor of RocIT secure devices. They provide a completely customisable secure mobile computing platform for military-grade storage and transmission of encrypted data.

Celeram -- information acceleration and security

History