Top 15 Database Engine startups

Jul 14, 2024 | By Fernando Lopez

1
Country: USA | Funding: $641.6M
PingCAP is a developer of an open-source, distributed SQL database for real-time analytics.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $356.8M
Redis Labs is the open source home and commercial provider of Redis, a database benchmarked as the world’s fastest.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $311M
MongoDB is a next-generation database that helps businesses transform their industries by harnessing the power of data.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $291M
Yugabyte is an open source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, IoT. It also offers Database as a Service platform to enterprise customers
5
Country: USA | Funding: $271.7M
MariaDB Corporation is the company behind MariaDB, the fastest growing Open Source database.
6
Country: USA | Funding: $241M
Aerospike is a company that delivers a hybrid memory database for real time big data applications.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $105M
PlanetScale builds a database-as-a-service offering on Vitess, an open source sharding middleware system for MySQL.
8
Country: USA | Funding: $104M
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from compute, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. With a generous free tier, developers can quickly start and efficiently scale at will.
9
Country: USA | Funding: $61.2M
Basho Technologies is a distributed systems company that develops a key-value NoSQL database technology Riak, and an object storage system. Acquired by Bet365
10
Country: USA | Funding: $22.7M
FoundationDB is a scalable NoSQL database with high performance multi-key ACID transactions that support multiple data models. Acquired by Apple
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com