#databases

#databases

Developers have spent the past decade trying to forget databases exist. Not literally, of course. We still store petabytes. But for the average developer, the database became an implementation detail; an essential but staid utility layer we worked hard not to think about. We abstracted it behind object-relational mappers (ORM). We wrapped it in APIs. We stuffed semi-structured objects into columns and told ourselves it was flexible.

Palo Alto-based ClickHouse provides an open-source database system for real-time analytical reporting. Founded by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky in 2021, ClickHouse has now raised a total of $1.1B in total equity funding and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, and WCM Investment Management.

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