- Published on August 9, 2019
- In AI Features
Can CockroachDB, The Next Big Star In The Database Market, Edge Out Oracle & AWS?
- By Vishal Chawla
There is a rising star in the database market which is all ready to compete against the likes of database giants AWS and Oracle. Cockroach Labs founded by three ex-Googlers, Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell recently raised $55 million in its series C funding round, which was led by Altimeter Capital, Tiger Global along with existing investors including GV (Google Ventures) investors, Benchmark, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, FirstMark Capital and Work-Bench, giving a major push to the company’s growth plans for CockroachDB.
What’s different about this product is that it is a geo-distributed SQL database, can scale horizontally and is designed in a way that it can survive and have data resilience in case there is an outage. It has the ability to localize data within
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Vishal Chawla
Vishal Chawla is a senior tech journalist at Analytics India Magazine and writes about AI, data analytics, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and blockchain. Vishal also hosts AIM's video podcast called Simulated Reality- featuring tech leaders, AI experts, and innovative startups of India.
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