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Terark built a new storage engine for Database and Data Systems. Our technology enables direct search on highly compressed data, with 200X faster read performance and more than 10X storage savings (better than Google's LevelDB, Facebook's RocksDB), getting larger scalability with lower cost for big data applications.

Terark is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Fastest Storage Engine with the Best Compression, we enables direct…. The founders listed are Sean Fu (Founder/CEO), Peng Lei (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 10, 2016).

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Terark

New accelerator entry · 2016-11-10 · the record

Winter 2017
batch
2
people
Early
stage
China
region
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BatchWinter 2017
Announced2016-11-10
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size2
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
SectorsBig Data, Cloud Computing
RegionsChina, East Asia
BasedBeijing, Beijing, China
HiringNo
Sitehttp://www.terark.com

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Terark built a new storage engine for Database and Data Systems. Our technology enables direct search on highly compressed data, with 200X faster read performance and more than 10X storage savings (better than Google's LevelDB, Facebook's RocksDB), getting larger scalability with lower cost for big data applications. Alibaba is our paying customer, and we are a YCombinator company.

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