When you say “the price of crude oil is 44.01 USD/barrel” - it informs you. It’s information. The stuff in a database isn’t like that. It’s just a structure for computers to work with that you’ll never see. But for data to be understood by producers and consumers, somebody has to write a description, data-dictionary or catalog. Narrative is required, and there’s just no way around that, because it’s how we think, and how we communicate. Without it, data is not information.

We built Truenumbers® to organize data like a reference book with an index in the back, so you can capture any kind of data without needing a schema or model. Truenumbers are individual facts written in a simple, structured natural language (“the price of crude oil is 44.01 USD/barrel” is a truenumber). In other words, Truenumbers is the first database to actually store information in your native language, not the computer’s.

What Truenumbers Does Better

  • Data integration - Any kind of data represented in a common, intelligible language that grows with your requirements

  • Data portability - Truenumbers are individual facts you can take out of the database and use in documents, web pages and programming without loss of integrity or fear of tampering. Like this one right here 44.01 (go ahead, click on it)

  • Real-time distributed systems - Being portable and self-describing, truenumbers can flow among processes on sockets or Kafka. Truenumbers’ change-driven process model enables scalable real-time data flows with unprecedented ease

  • Thinner more universal clients - Truenumber data needs less code to make it intelligible to users, and because all truenumbers have the same structure, applications are automatically more general. That means less knowledge embedded in code, and more in the data

  • Analytics, AI and Machine Learning - Because truenumber facts put more knowledge in the database, in one language across all domains, analysis has more to chew on. Results can go back into truenumbers too, allowing continuous enhancement of information.

  • Compliance and security - Truenumbers are immutable. Their unique identity ensures traceability and integrity. Every truenumber has its meaning and identity on board, allowing verification and validation with one click. Secure data even in insecure environments.

  • Flexible storage options - Truenumbers relies on whatever persistence technology is appropriate. Truenumbers uses MariaDB or MongoDB in it’s standard configurations, but can be adapted to any storage technology with minimal disruption because a truenumber is a truenumber no matter where it’s stored

Truenumbers is helping build next-generation systems under the US Navy NAVWAR command’s SBIR program, working with High Yield Data, LLC solving data problems for economic development organizations all over America, and helping grad students manage data for statistical analysis in Boston University’s MSSP Program.

Contact us for a briefing to learn how we can give data back to its rightful owner - the user.