 Software AG acquired Terracotta in May 2011.Wolfram Jost, CTO of Software AG, cited Terracotta's scalability, performance, cloud enablement and in-memory strategy as the most critical factors for the acquisition.In November 2017, Terracotta DB was launched, a in-memory data management platform for translytical (transactional and analytical) workloads, based on an evolution of Terracotta BigMemory.