The deal pairs a 16-year old company, which now specializes in real-time messaging middleware, with a maker of database engines that process the torrents of data.
Unlike mainstream messaging systems from IBM and Tibco, RTI eliminates the broker which otherwise slows performance in favor of a peer-to-peer architecture. The result is that RTI’s messaging is hardly a general-purpose enterprise integration engine, but instead is suited for highly targeted, high-performance applications.
RTI itself offers the high-performance messaging, caching, and data visualization engine. Until now, it was run by clients against custom C or C++ programs that provided data management and querying.
The tie-in with Coral8 was prompted by RTI’s recent move to financial services. The company’s historical base has been in aerospace and defense, which is heavily dependent on custom programs for processing events such as tracking defense fighters or missiles that require millisecond response for processing data from hundreds or thousands of sensors. For financial services, sensors are replaced by real-time data feeds from trading systems.
According to vice president of marketing David Barnett, interest in the tie-in with Coral8 was due to prospective interest among new Wall Street prospects that RTI itself was targeting. Under the OEM arrangement, RTI will bundle and resell the Coral8 engine inside its messaging and data visualization framework through an optimized adapter.
