1982 headquarters seattle washington u.s. key people chief executive officer steinar sande products raima database manager rdm 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 as well as 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 products are made to collect store manage and move data . 1 third party source needed contents 1 history 2 technology 3 applications 4 references 5 external links history edit 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 . 2 some of the more significant raima product releases are shown below . 1984 raima releases db vista currently named rdm embedded version 1 . a single user network model database management system dbms for c language applications on ms dos and unix . 1986 db vista version 2 is released adding a portable file locks stored in a lock file multi user dbms with transaction level database consistency . 1987 db query released providing the first sql like query tool for accessing a network model database . 1988 db vista version 3 is released where a system wide lock manager process manages all file locks . 1990 raima releases db vista for microsoft windows . 1992 raima database server version 1 aka velocis and today rdm server is introduced providing a client server dbms with record level locking and sql designed to be tightly integrated with sophisticated applications written in c. multiple platform support for ms dos novell netware os 2 and unix . the first full featured dbms to support the odbc sql api as its native sql api . 1996 velocis 1.0 hot online backup 1998 velocis 2.1 true multi threading application link 2006 rdm server 7.2 dynamic ddl 2009 rdm server 8.3 sql triggers & enhanced join syntax 2010 rdm embedded 10.0 multi core computer support using transactional file servers with high performance mvcc based read only transactions . 2011 sql for rdm embedded 10.1 2012 odbc jdbc ado.net support for rdm 11.0 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 . citation needed technology edit raima delivers multiple database solutions rdm 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 . applications edit 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 . references edit database specialist for data management . raima.com . retrieved 2016 03 15 . 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