DataStax

DataStax
Private
Industry Database Technologies
Genre Column-oriented DBMS
Founded April 2010, Texas, USA.
Founder
  • Jonathan Ellis (CTO)
  • Matt Pfeil
Headquarters Santa Clara, CA, USA
Key people
 Billy Bosworth (CEO)
Jonathan Ellis (Co-Founder)
Matt Pfeil (Co-Founder)
Website DataStax.com

DataStax, Inc. is a software company that develops and provides commercial support for an enterprise edition of the Cassandra database, a NoSQL database.

DataStax's business model centers around selling an enterprise distribution of the open-source Apache Cassandra project which includes extensions [1] to Apache Cassandra, Analytics [2] and Search [3] functionality. The DataStax Enterprise (DSE) distribution comes with 24x7 customer support.[4] In addition, DataStax offers professional services and training directly [5] and through an extensive partner network.[6]

History

The company's two founders, Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, were employees of Rackspace. They left Rackspace in 2010 to found DataStax (original name: Riptano). DataStax Enterprise 1.0 was released in October 2011. By mid 2013, the company had acquired more than $84 million in funding from venture capital firms,[7] and launched into Europe.

Language bindings

Languages with DSE binding include Java, Node.js, .NET, Python, Ruby, and C/C++. The Cassandra Community maintains additional drivers for PHP, Perl, Go, Clojure, Haskell, R, and Scala.

Worldwide

The original eight-person team moved into rented office space in San Mateo, California in early 2011. In March 2014, the company moved to a 36,000 square foot office space in Santa Clara, CA to accommodate the growing workforce.[8]

The company has a satellite office in Austin, Texas and additional offices in London, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo.

Company

DataStax is listed as one of 20 pre-IPO companies to watch by IDG.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/cassandra#navtop
  2. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/analytics#navtop
  3. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/search#navtop
  4. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/support
  5. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/consulting
  6. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/partners
  7. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/with-ipo-in-its-sights-datastax-raises-45m-for-fast-growing-nosql-database-platform/
  8. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/2014/03/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new
  9. ↑ http://www.slideshare.net/IDGConnect/20-pre-ipo-companies-in-2014-b2-b-tech
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