Industry Database Technologies Website DataStax.com CFO Robert O’Donovan Number of employees 400 Chief product officer Robin Schumacher | Genre Column-oriented DBMS Headquarters Santa Clara Founded 2010 CTO Jonathan Ellis Type Privately held company | |
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Founder Jonathan Ellis (CTO)
Matt Pfeil Key people Billy Bosworth (CEO)
Jonathan Ellis (Co-Founder)
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DataStax, Inc. is a software company that develops and provides support for a commercial edition of the Apache Cassandra database, a NoSQL database. It competes with legacy database products from Oracle.
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DataStax sells and provides support for a commercial version of the open-source Apache Cassandra project, called DataStax Enterprise (DSE), that has extensions for analytics and search functions using Apache Spark and Apache Solr respectively. Language bindings provided with DSE include Java, Node.js, .NET, Python, Ruby, and C/C++. The DSE provide OpsCenter, a management interface for Cassandra monitoring and configuration.
DataStax employees contribute to the open-source Cassandra project. The company's Community Edition is a free distribution of Apache Cassandra along with a utility named OpsCenter.
History
Cassandra was initially developed internally at Facebook, to handle large data sets across multiple servers. Facebook handles 50 billion photos from its user base. Cassandra was released as an Apache open source project in 2008.
The company's two founders, Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, left Rackspace in 2010 to found DataStax (original name: Riptano). DataStax Enterprise 1.0 was released in October 2011. The company moved to Santa Clara, CA in 2014. As of September 2014, the company was valued at $830 million.
In February 2015, DataStax acquired Aurelius LLC, the innovators behind the open source graph database TitanDB. DSE 5.0 was released in mid-2016 with the addition of DSE Graph.
By April 2015, the company had 400 employees and a few offices overseas. Its customers included one-third of the Fortune 100. Its largest competition came from the legacy database products of Oracle, along with competition from two database startup companies, MongoDB and Couchbase.