Decodable

Decodable provides a fully managed, serverless platform for real-time data movement and stream processing, unifying ELT, ETL and reverse ETL workloads on a single system. The platform is built on the open-source projects Apache Flink and Debezium, and removes the need for customers to provision, configure or operate streaming infrastructure. Users build pipelines in SQL, Java or Python, connect systems through a library of managed connectors (including Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, Apache Iceberg and Snowflake) and use Debezium-powered change data capture for database replication.

The product is accessible via a UI, CLI and APIs, with dbt integration and declarative resource management intended to support infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows. Deployment options include a fully hosted service and a "bring your own cloud" model. Decodable states support for automatic configuration tuning, monitoring, pipeline optimization, scale-to-zero during idle periods, consumption-based pricing, SSO integration with identity providers, role-based access control and audit logging. The company cites SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance. A free tier is available without a credit card.

Stated use cases include event-driven microservices, real-time data integration, data mesh deployment, real-time ML/AI feature pipelines, masking of PII/PHI for governance and regulatory compliance, and streaming data into vector databases to support retrieval-augmented generation and agentic AI applications. The company's website and product pages currently display a notice that Decodable has been acquired by Redis.

Founding story

Founder and CEO Eric Sammer previously was VP and Distinguished Engineer at Splunk, where he oversaw development of its real-time stream processing and infrastructure platform; he joined Splunk through its acquisition of Rocana, which he co-founded and where he was CTO, and he was an early employee at Cloudera and author of an O'Reilly book on Hadoop operations. According to the company, Decodable grew out of the need to simplify and accelerate development and management of real-time applications and services, so that developers, data engineers and data scientists could deploy production pipelines in minutes without dealing with distributed systems complexity.

Business model

Decodable sells a managed cloud service for real-time data pipelines. Sources describe a free entry tier with no credit card required and consumption-based pricing in which customers "pay only for what you use," with the option of a fully hosted deployment or a bring-your-own-cloud deployment.

Usage-based pricing for a fully managed serverless platform, with a free starting tier; the sources do not disclose pricing levels or revenue figures.

Traction

Public sources provide no customer counts or revenue figures. Disclosed traction is limited to funding ($5.5M seed and a Series A of more than $20M, $25.5M total as of February 2022), general availability of the platform, and the eventual acquisition by Redis. The website cites Apache Flink community statistics (23.6k+ GitHub stars, 1.2k+ contributions, 15M+ downloads) that describe the underlying open-source project rather than Decodable itself.

Latest developments

Decodable's homepage and product pages carry a banner stating that the company has been acquired by Redis, linking to an announcement blog post; no terms, date or integration plans are given in the material available. Recent product positioning emphasizes streaming data into vector databases for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic AI use cases.