Citrusleaf is launching a real-time NoSQL database platform, delivering a different take on database and distributed technology.  With $2 million in Series A funding from Alsop Louie Partners, Kalpathi Investments and Draper Associates, the startup is tackling a unique sector of the NoSQL environment, with big goals around simplifying its management and scalability.

Founded in 2009 by Brian Bulkowski and Srini Srinivasan (CEO and CTO respectively), each brought their own experience in database and networking technology to create an optimal data storage and management platform.  The goal is to handle the vast amount of traffic and data being created on the web, which has only grown expeditiously with the rapid adoption of the mobile sector.  Citrusleaf seeks an elegant solution for addressing data-intensive, mission-critical businesses, which is running data quickly and accurately.

Citrusleaf does so by processing terabytes of data in real-time, with ACID compliance.  This right here already eliminates a big headache for the NoSQL community, adhering to standards that are being implimented across e-commerce and advertising sectors, where data needs to be assessed quickly, so smart decisions can be made.  While Citrusleaf isn’t an open-source project, it does have large goals around its extended platform, hailing from the standards put forth by db2 so many years ago.

“Databases were around long before SQL, and there’s always been a way to get reliability into a database without it,” Bulkowski explains.  “We’re following a similar game plan.  DB is a kernnel used to build this technology, and finding customers with these particular problems gives us deployment and experience to reach out to new platforms.”

Expansion is an important part of Citrusleaf’s goals for the remainder of the year, with fresh funds and an officially launched product.  The company already has a penchant for the mobile sector, finding that marketing companies are having to process a great deal of information based on disparate user activity.  To this end, Citrusleaf is leaning towards location-based expansion, among other areas pertaining to the mobile sector, helping to grow the NoSQL community into new interfaces.