DivontrixDB
3Z Architecture

Distributed Relational Database for Mission Critical Enterprises

Zero failure under heavy workloads. Engineered in Rust for the AI-era threat landscape. On-premise only. Post-quantum ready. Built for the workloads legacy databases were never architected to survive.

ZFZero Failure
ZASZero Attack Surface
ZTNAZero-Trust Network Access
Built with RustDistributedTamper-evident by constructionNative driverZero-trust by designPost-quantum readyAir-gappable
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// 01 — 3Z Architecture

Built to survive what breaks other databases.

The three zeros are not parallel features. They are nested: ZF (the outcome) lives inside ZAS (the mechanism that produces it), which lives inside ZTNA (the boundary that protects it). Each layer survives a different class of failure — network compromise, driver exploits, split-brain, silent data loss — so the outcome inside survives all of them at once. This is defense in depth, enforced at the architectural level — not configured at deployment time.

ZTNABoundary
ZASMechanism
ZFOutcome
The outcome

Survives extreme conditions
and heavy workloads

produced by ZAS · protected by ZTNA
ZFZero FailureOutcome

The innermost outcome. Survives split-brain, stale-leader writes, silent data loss, and audit-log tampering — failure modes legacy databases patch through configuration are eliminated at the storage-engine source. This is what the architecture delivers under extreme conditions and heavy workloads.

Hover or tap a layer to inspect it

Architecture deep-dive available under NDA.

See the engineering decisions
// 02 — Positioning

Two databases, two eras. One line between them.

General-purpose databases were built for the workloads of the last twenty years — web apps, analytics, content — where a missed commit is a support ticket, not a regulatory event. The next twenty are different: real-time fraud, genomic medicine, distributed grid operations, autonomous systems. The data is sensitive, the audit trail is legally binding, and the failure mode is consequential.

A database architected before this shift cannot be patched into it. Adding zero-trust to a system designed around a trusted network, or tamper-evidence to a storage engine designed around best-effort writes, does not change what the system is — only what it claims. DivontrixDB is not an extension of the old category. It is the category that replaces it.

Axis
Deployment model
Legacy general-purpose
Cloud-first or self-hosted from source. IP leaves the vendor.
DivontrixDB
On-premise, signed binaries, IP retained. Configured per client under NDA.
Axis
Threat model
Legacy general-purpose
Engineered for the attack surface of ten years ago; patched since.
DivontrixDB
Engineered against machine-speed, AI-driven attacks from first principles.
Axis
Failure posture
Legacy general-purpose
High availability as a metric — tolerates a measured failure rate.
DivontrixDB
Survival as a contract — the architecture will not let it fail.
Axis
Who it is for
Legacy general-purpose
Web apps, analytics, content — workloads that tolerate downtime.
DivontrixDB
Finance, healthcare, defense, grid — workloads where failure is consequential.

The choice is not which database to run. It is which category your workload belongs to — and whether the database under it was built for that category.

// 03 — Engineering principles

Four decisions that change what a database can be.

The 3Z architecture states what the database survives. These are the engineering decisions that make it survive — each one moves a guarantee from a configuration flag into the structure of the system, so it cannot be disabled or forgotten.

01

One language, one type system

The driver and the engine are compiled from the same codebase. There is no protocol between them to translate, fuzz, or version-skew — the boundary that every wire-protocol database must defend does not exist here. This is the engineering decision that makes Zero Attack Surface a property of the build, not a setting.

Mechanisms
  • Native driver — no JDBC/ODBC bridge, no Postgres-wire adapter
  • Single type system — values cross the boundary as themselves, never serialized
  • Single release artifact — driver and engine ship and are tested as one unit
  • No FFI to a C core — the entire stack is one memory-safe language
02

Integrity as a data structure

Tamper-evidence is not an audit-log feature layered on top; it is the shape of the data. Every record carries a signature, every log is a hash chain, every snapshot is Merkle-rooted. An attacker who controls the storage layer cannot rewrite the past without breaking a chain that the present still depends on — the verification is structural, not optional.

Mechanisms
  • Audit log — hash-chained, per-entry signed
  • Write-ahead log — frames signed and chain-linked
  • Snapshots — Merkle-rooted, fail-closed if an external snapshot is deleted
  • Replication frames — per-frame integrity proofs
03

Consensus under the storage engine

Replication is not a clustering layer bolted onto a single-node core. Consensus lives inside the storage engine, so every write is agreed before it is acknowledged and every leader is fenced before it can diverge. The database does not detect split-brain after the fact — it structurally cannot enter it.

Mechanisms
  • Raft-style consensus — writes are agreed, not eventually reconciled
  • Fencing tokens — a stale leader's writes are rejected at the engine, not the client
  • Active-active multi-region — write to any region, replicate to all
  • Online shard splitting — scale-out with no downtime window
04

Crypto-agility by construction

Every cryptographic primitive sits behind a versioned provider interface, and every record carries the algorithm tag it was written under. Algorithms can be rotated in a controlled rollout without rewriting storage, replication, or audit layers — legacy data stays verifiable under its original scheme, new writes adopt the current one, and both coexist until a deliberate, logged cutover.

Mechanisms
  • Versioned crypto-provider interface — algorithms are pluggable, not hard-wired
  • Per-record algorithm tag — old data stays verifiable, no format migration
  • Audited cutover — rotation is a logged, reviewable event, not a flag flip
  • Fail-closed rotation — a failed rotation halts, never silently downgrades

Architecture deep-dive available under NDA.

// 04 — Deployment model

On-premise. Binary-only. IP stays with Divontrix.

DivontrixDB is not a cloud service. It is not open source. It is not source-available. It is a proprietary, on-premise database delivered as signed binaries, configured for each client's industry under NDA, and operated under licensing terms that protect the IP permanently. This is the only way we ship.

01

On-premise. Always.

DivontrixDB is not available as a cloud service. It is deployed on-premise, on infrastructure you control — your data center, your air-gapped network, your sovereign cloud. We do not host your data. We do not have access to your running instances. Once deployed, DivontrixDB operates entirely within your perimeter.

Terms
  • No cloud-hosted SaaS tier — your data never leaves your infrastructure
  • Air-gappable — deployable in classified and isolated networks
  • No phone-home, no telemetry, no remote access from Divontrix
  • Sovereign — runs on your hardware, under your physical control
02

Configured for your industry, under NDA

Every DivontrixDB deployment is configured and customized for the client's specific industry and operational rules — regulatory regime, isolation requirements, audit workflow, integration surface. This customization work is performed under NDA. You tell us how your environment must operate; we configure DivontrixDB to match. The configuration is yours. The underlying DivontrixDB architecture is not.

Terms
  • Industry-specific configuration — regulatory, operational, integration
  • All customization work performed under mutual NDA
  • Your configuration is yours to keep; the architecture remains ours
  • No two deployments are identical — each is built to your operating rules
03

Binary delivery. Source stays with Divontrix.

Clients receive compiled binary files for deployment — not source code, not build pipelines, not repository access. The DivontrixDB source code, architecture, and all internal repositories remain the sole property of Divontrix Technologies. No source is licensed. No source is escrowed. No source is shared with third parties. This is non-negotiable.

Terms
  • Signed binaries only — verifiable provenance from our controlled build pipeline
  • No source code, no build artifacts, no repository access — ever
  • No source escrow, no third-party source custody, no source licensing
  • IP ownership is absolute — DivontrixDB architecture is Divontrix property, permanently
04

Divontrix controls the repositories. Always.

All DivontrixDB repositories — source, build, configuration, deployment artifacts — are managed and controlled exclusively by Divontrix Technologies. No third-party access. No client access. No contractor access. Build provenance is verifiable: the binaries you receive are traceable to a specific signed build from our controlled pipeline, and only our pipeline can produce them.

Terms
  • All repositories managed exclusively by Divontrix — no external access
  • No third-party contractors, no outsourcing, no offshore development
  • Signed build pipeline — every binary is traceable to a specific build
  • Tamper-evident provenance — you can verify your binary came from us
05

Enforced licensing terms

DivontrixDB binaries are delivered under licensing terms that enforce operational rules: no reverse engineering, no redistribution, no sub-licensing, no modification. The license is enforced technically — binary signing, attestation, runtime integrity checks — and legally, through contractual terms that survive termination. Violations terminate the license and require destruction of all deployed binaries.

Terms
  • No reverse engineering, no redistribution, no sub-licensing, no modification
  • Technically enforced — binary signing + runtime attestation, not just legal text
  • Contractually enforced — terms survive termination
  • Violation = license termination + mandatory binary destruction
06

Dedicated training for your operators

Divontrix provides dedicated training for the client team that will operate the DivontrixDB deployment — installation, configuration, monitoring, incident response, audit extraction, and recovery procedures. Training is delivered by Divontrix engineers, on your schedule, for your specific deployment configuration. Your operators learn from the people who built it — not from documentation alone, not from third-party trainers.

Terms
  • Delivered by Divontrix engineers — the people who built DivontrixDB
  • Tailored to your specific deployment configuration
  • Covers install, config, monitoring, incident response, audit, recovery
  • On your schedule — no public classes, no shared training environments
IP ownership is absolute and non-negotiable.

The DivontrixDB source code, architecture, design documents, build pipeline, and all related repositories are the sole and permanent property of Divontrix Technologies Private Limited. No client engagement — regardless of size, duration, or customization scope — transfers, licenses, or escrows any portion of the DivontrixDB intellectual property. Clients receive binaries and configuration, never source. This is the foundation of every engagement.

Maturity stage · How we validate readiness

Production-readiness is proven on your premise, under your workload, with instrumented evidence.

DivontrixDB is not deployed directly to a client's on-premise environment and declared ready. Every deployment undergoes a mandatory stress-test and monitoring window of 24 to 48 hours on the client's actual infrastructure, under the client's actual workload, with full instrumentation. Only when the evidence — latency percentiles, throughput, failure-recovery behavior, audit-integrity verification, and resource stability — proves DivontrixDB is ready for real-time operations do we validate the deployment as production-ready.

The constraint is absolute: until DivontrixDB is proven practically on the client's premise, we do not validate it as ready. No internal benchmark substitutes for the client's real environment. No vendor assertion substitutes for instrumented evidence. If the stress test does not pass, the deployment does not proceed — the issue is diagnosed, fixed, and the stress test is re-run.

Phase 1
Stress test

24–48 hours on client infrastructure, under client workload, fully instrumented.

Phase 2
Evidence review

Latency, throughput, failure-recovery, audit-integrity, resource stability — all reviewed against acceptance criteria.

Phase 3
Validation

Only on passing evidence do we validate the deployment as production-ready. Otherwise: diagnose, fix, re-run.

DivontrixDB is codebase-complete and entering design-partner deployments.

Source ownership · Why we do not escrow, and why we cannot

We hold the source as a pinnacle responsibility — not as a financial asset.

DivontrixDB source code is not treated as IP held for financial benefit. It is held as a pinnacle responsibility — the responsibility to keep DivontrixDB secure, performant, maintained, and compliant for every deployment that depends on it. That responsibility is non-delegable.

Divontrix continuously monitors the codebase across four pillars of sustainability:

Security

Vulnerability scanning, threat-model review, crypto-agility updates, dependency auditing.

Performance

Benchmark regression, latency budget tracking, resource profiling under realistic load.

Maintenance

Dependency upgrades, build-pipeline integrity, signing-key rotation, documentation drift.

Compliance

Regulatory mapping updates, audit-trail integrity verification, control attestation tracking.

Why no third party can take this over. These four pillars are not separable from the source code itself. They require the engineering context that built the system, the threat model that shaped it, the build pipeline that signs it, and the institutional memory that knows why each design decision was made. A third party receiving the source code would receive the text — but not the responsibility, not the context, and not the continuity. They could not deliver the security, performance, maintenance, or compliance obligations that DivontrixDB deployments depend on.

Business continuity, answered. Clients ask what happens if Divontrix is unable to continue. The answer is documented in the operational continuity plan provided to every design-partner engagement (see Company section): the codebase, build pipeline, and signing keys are documented and version-controlled for successor onboarding, and a qualified senior engineer can resume maintenance within a documented onboarding window. What we do not do is hand the source to a third party who cannot carry the responsibility. That would compromise the four pillars of sustainability — and we will not compromise them for any commercial convenience.

Engagement model · Timeline, pricing, requirements

What an engagement looks like — from NDA to production validation.

Timeline · typically 8–14 weeks, scoped per engagement
Phase 1 · 1–2 weeks
NDA + deep-dive

Mutual NDA, architecture walkthrough, threat model review, deployment environment assessment.

Phase 2 · 4–8 weeks
Configuration + customization

Industry-specific configuration under NDA. Duration depends on client regulatory regime, integration surface, and isolation constraints.

Phase 3 · ~1 week
Stress-test validation

The 24–48 hour stress test on client premise (see maturity stage above), including evidence analysis and any fixes.

Phase 4 · 1–2 weeks
Operator training

Dedicated training for the client team — install, config, monitoring, incident response, audit, recovery. Parallel to stress test.

Timeline is scoped per engagement after the discovery call. The above is a typical range — client-specific requirements (regulatory regime, integration surface, isolation constraints) determine the actual timeline.

Pricing · $1M baseline (5-year tenure), scales with deployment topology
$1M
Baseline engagement (single-node) · 5-year tenure
Binary license for one deployment
Industry-specific configuration under NDA
24–48h stress-test validation on client premise
Dedicated operator training
5-year maintenance + security updates
Scaling model
Single nodebaseline
Cluster (3–5 nodes)+ topology scaling
Datacenter (multi-cluster)+ topology scaling
Cross-DC (active-active multi-region)+ topology scaling

Pricing scales with deployment topology — single-node, cluster, datacenter, and cross-datacenter. Exact scaling quoted per engagement after the discovery call.

Requirements · Operating system + hardware
Operating system
Rocky Linux (preferred)

DivontrixDB is built and tested on Rocky Linux — RHEL-compatible, enterprise-grade, no licensing entanglement. Other RHEL-compatible distributions may be supported on request; compatibility is confirmed during the discovery call.

Hardware
Client's choice — within minimums

DivontrixDB is hardware-agnostic within documented minimums. Clients choose their own hardware based on scaling and budget. Minimum hardware requirements are documented per deployment topology (single-node, cluster, DC, cross-DC) and shared after the discovery call — this keeps competitors from benchmarking our engineering assumptions while giving buyers the feasibility data they need.

// 05 — Verticals

Ten verticals. One standard.

DivontrixDB is purpose-built for the industries where the database is not a commodity — it is infrastructure of record. The same engineering standard applies across every vertical we serve.

01

Banking & Capital Markets

When a missed commit becomes a regulatory event.

02

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Patient data on the line, every second of every day.

03

Government, Defense & Intelligence

Deployable where the network cannot be trusted.

04

Energy, Utilities & Power Grid

The substrate grid operations depend on.

05

Telecommunications & 5G/6G

Subscriber-grade scale, edge-grade latency.

06

Aerospace & Aviation

Decades-long data horizons, zero tolerance for drift.

07

Insurance & Reinsurance

Forty-year liabilities demand forty-year integrity.

08

Supply Chain, Logistics & Maritime

Provenance that survives audit, merger, and time.

09

Public Safety & 911/112

When the database is the difference between life and not.

10

Critical Infrastructure OT/ICS

Air-gappable, supply-chain-clean, hardware-aware.

Detailed vertical briefings available under NDA.

// 06 — Compliance

Aligned with the regulations your auditors enforce.

DivontrixDB maps to the regulatory regimes that govern the workloads we serve. Specific control mappings, evidence packs, and audit-ready documentation are provided to customers under engagement.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)HIPAAGDPRPCI-DSS v4.0DORAEU AI ActNERC CIPIEC 62443NSM-10NAIC AI BulletinDSCSANENA i3 (NG911)DoD Zero Trust Reference ArchitectureCISA Secure by Design

Control mappings and evidence available under NDA.

// 07 — Security

Vulnerability disclosure, treated as a first-class workflow.

A database that claims to be mission-critical must hold itself to a mission-critical security posture — including how it receives, triages, and remediates vulnerability reports from independent researchers. This page documents our public commitments.

Reporting a vulnerability? Email security@divontrix.com directly. Do not use the general contact form — vulnerability reports require a dedicated intake with PGP encryption, 48-hour acknowledgment, and tracked remediation. The contact form is for non-urgent security questions only.
Report a vulnerability

security@divontrix.com

For vulnerability reports affecting DivontrixDB, the DivontrixDB driver, or this website. Include a clear reproduction, the affected component, and your preferred disclosure timeline. PGP-encrypted reports are preferred for reports containing exploit details.

PGP key
Live · RSA 4096
Fingerprint:
33F3 F3DB 33C3 F8E1 29F7 A285 4D9B 2771 42BE C696
Expires: 2028-07-02 · UID: security@divontrix.com

Import with: gpg --import pgp-key.asc — then encrypt your report with gpg --encrypt --recipient security@divontrix.com. Plaintext reports are still accepted; encryption is encouraged, never required.

48-hour acknowledgment

Every security report receives a human acknowledgment within 48 hours, with a tracking ID and a named point of contact. Auto-replies do not count.

Coordinated disclosure

We credit researchers in our hall of fame, coordinate public disclosure timing with you, and never pursue legal action against good-faith reports.

Encrypted by default

Reports are accepted over PGP-encrypted email. The public key is published at /.well-known/pgp-key.asc and embedded in our security.txt — encryption is encouraged, never required for initial contact.

Certifications & attestations
In planning

SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/IEC 27017/27018 are on our certification roadmap. Target timelines will be published here once audit engagements begin.

Currently held

None yet. We do not list certifications we have not earned. When DivontrixDB completes an audit, the attestation report will be available to customers under NDA.

// 08 — Company

The company behind DivontrixDB.

DivontrixDB is built by Divontrix Technologies, an Indian technology company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 on 14 October 2025. The company is registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs as an unlisted One Person Company (CIN U62011TS2025OPC205089) under NIC 62011 — the MCA classification for writing, modifying, and testing of computer programs. The registered office is in Telangana, India, under the jurisdiction of the Registrar of Companies, Hyderabad.

We chose to incorporate as a One Person Company (OPC) initially to move fast without diluting the mission. As DivontrixDB moves from early access to general availability, the corporate structure will evolve to match — but the engineering standard will not.

Founder & Head of Operations
Harish Chennuri
Founder & Head of Operations, Divontrix Technologies (OPC) Private Limited

Harish leads product, engineering, customer engagement, and security — the operational head of the company. Appointed as Head of Operations of Divontrix Technologies (OPC) Private Limited with effect from 07 July 2026, reporting directly to the Managing Director (Sole Director of the OPC).

Managing Director · Statutory
Devamma Chennuri
Managing Director (Sole Director of the OPC), Divontrix Technologies · DIN 11341143

Devamma Chennuri is the founder's mother and serves as the sole director and member of Divontrix Technologies (OPC) Private Limited, incorporated on 14 October 2025 under the Companies Act, 2013. She holds Director Identification Number (DIN) 11341143, issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, and is designated as Managing Director of the Company in addition to being its sole director. She provides overall supervision, control, and direction to the Head of Operations, with day-to-day operations delegated to him subject to her prior written approval on reserved matters defined in the resolution.

Operational continuity

The codebase, build pipeline, and signing keys are documented and version-controlled such that a qualified senior engineer can resume maintenance within a documented onboarding window. As part of every design-partner engagement, Divontrix provides a documented operational continuity plan covering: build reproduction, signing key succession, and emergency maintenance procedures. The plan is reviewed annually and updated with each major release. As the company grows, this will transition to a multi-engineer structure — but the documentation exists today.

Client references are not published — by design

DivontrixDB does not publish client references, testimonials, or named customer lists.

  1. 1. Client confidentiality is part of the mission-critical posture. The buyers we serve — banking, defense, healthcare, critical infrastructure — do not permit their vendor relationships to be used as marketing. Naming them would violate the trust that makes the engagement possible.
  2. 2. The system proves itself. Product validation comes from instrumented evidence — the 24–48 hour stress test on the client's premise — not from testimonials. A reference customer tells you someone else took a risk on us. The stress-test evidence tells you whether the risk is justified.

If a buyer needs vendor-credibility signal beyond the system evidence, the path is: NDA → technical deep-dive → independent verification on the buyer's own infrastructure. That is the only reference that matters for a mission-critical deployment.

MCA-verified records
Verify on MCA
Legal name
Divontrix Technologies (OPC) Private Limited
Corporate Identification Number (CIN)
U62011TS2025OPC205089
Date of incorporation
14 October 2025
Jurisdiction
Telangana, India — RoC-Hyderabad
Registered office
D.NO.2-3-353, Market Road, M V Complex,
Metpalli, Karim Nagar district,
Telangana, India — 505325

All company data on this page is sourced from public filings with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, and is verifiable via the official MCA portal. We publish it openly because enterprise buyers deserve to know exactly who they are entrusting their mission-critical workloads to.

// 09 — Early access

Join the early-access cohort.

DivontrixDB is being deployed with a limited set of design partners across finance, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. If your workload cannot fail, we want to talk to you.

Direct engagement with the engineering team
Deployment guidance for your environment
Influence on the near-term roadmap
Audit-ready evidence for your specific compliance regime
Cohort closes when slots are filled — no fixed deadline.

No database. No tracking. Your submission is emailed to us and discarded.

What we'll discuss on the discovery call: your workload, current database, deployment environment, timeline, and budget. No slides, no sales script — a focused 30 minutes with engineering.

What happens after you submit
  1. 01

    We review your request

    A human reads your submission — not an auto-responder, not a triage bot. We assess whether your organization, role, and operating context are a genuine fit for a $1M+ on-premise engagement.

    Within 2 business days
  2. 02

    30-minute discovery call

    If there's a fit, we schedule a focused call. This is where we discuss your workload, current database, deployment environment, timeline, and budget — the questions the form deliberately doesn't ask. No slides, no sales script.

    If there's mutual fit
  3. 03

    NDA + technical deep-dive

    Mutual NDA, then a working session with the engineering team. Architecture walkthrough, threat model review, deployment environment assessment, and a tailored pricing confirmation.

    If mutual interest
  4. 04

    Design partner agreement

    Engagement terms, deployment planning, success criteria. You join the cohort with direct engineering access and roadmap influence.

    Engagement begins

We respond to every submission. If DivontrixDB is not the right fit, we tell you — and where possible, we point you to what is.

// 10 — Contact

Have a question that isn't a form field?

For demos, partnerships, press inquiries, or non-urgent security questions, reach out via the form. We respond within two business days.

Vulnerability reports do not use this form — email security@divontrix.com directly. Disclosure policy →