What the hell is this voodoo? I want it. I'll be doing some research this evening...
Cockroach Labs scuttles its way to $160m funding, $2bn valuation thanks to the database that doesn't die
Even database companies you've never heard of might be worth a billion or two. Take Cockroach Labs, the firm behind the distributed RDMS CockroachDB, for example, which has hit gold in a $160m funding round. With backers including Greenoaks and Lone Pine, and existing investors Benchmark, BOND, FirstMark, GV, Index Ventures, …
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Tuesday 12th January 2021 18:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
It does indeed share some design elements with Spanner. Also of interest in this space from a heritage perspective is a project called Calvin out of Yale. A cousin of Cockroach built on similar concepts is Apache Kudu, which takes the same ideas and focuses on being an analytics-friendly distributed column store rather than a global OLTP system. It's a very healthy space. Glad to see Cockroach getting some money, but I'll be _astonished_ if they make any headway vs the native cloud players.
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Tuesday 12th January 2021 17:26 GMT Muppet Boss
"Never heard of database company" to some people but if one ever tried to find out why Golang binaries are so bloody big, they certainly read this well-written article. In fact, CockroachDB is one of the largest software projects written in Go.
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/go-file-size/
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