KeyDB
AcquiredYC S20Toronto, CA · Founded 2019 · 2 employees · 2 known investors
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KeyDB is an open source, multithreaded database that serves as a faster alternative to Redis, designed for high-throughput applications requiring horizontal and vertical scaling. It supports multiple data structures, persistence options, and advanced features like MVCC non-blocking queries and cross-region multi-master replication.
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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S20)
KeyDB was founded in 2019 by John Sully and Ben Schermel.
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John SullyinFounder and CEO2018–2022John previously worked at Microsoft, where he optimized Excel's performance and led the porting of Excel's grid rendering technology to mobile platforms.
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Ben SchermelinCo-Founder2017–2022Co-founder of KeyDB, an open-source multithreaded database designed as a faster alternative to Redis. A software developer with expertise across multiple programming languages.
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Redis48 shared keywordsRedis provides an in-memory caching layer that delivers sub-millisecond data access for real-time applications across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its Redis Enterprise offering targets businesses needing high-availability, scalable caching with multiple caching patterns such as cache-aside, write-behind, write-through, and prefetching.
Netezza23 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
simplyblock15 shared keywordsSimplyblock provides software-defined block storage built on NVMe-over-TCP and the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), delivering low-latency, scale-out storage on standard x64 and ARM64 hardware. It serves infrastructure and platform teams across environments such as VMware, Proxmox, Kubernetes, and cloud, supporting hyper-converged, disaggregated, and hybrid deployment models.
Qiita14 shared keywordsQiita provides platforms for engineers to record, share, and collaborate on technical knowledge and documentation. The company operates in the developer tools and knowledge-sharing space.
MongoDB13 shared keywordsMongoDB is a cloud database company that provides Atlas, a multi-cloud data platform for transactional, search, and generative AI workloads, along with enterprise on-premises options and integration tools for developers and partners.
QuestDB13 shared keywordsQuestDB is an open-source time-series database designed for high-performance analytics and low-latency querying of temporal data. It serves financial institutions, trading platforms, and enterprises requiring real-time data processing.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does KeyDB do?
- KeyDB is an open source, multithreaded database that serves as a faster alternative to Redis, designed for high-throughput applications requiring horizontal and vertical scaling. It supports multiple data structures, persistence options, and advanced features like MVCC non-blocking queries and cross-region multi-master replication.
- Who founded KeyDB?
- KeyDB was founded by John Sully, Ben Schermel in 2019.
- Who are KeyDB's investors?
- KeyDB's investors include TSVC, Y Combinator.
- Where is KeyDB headquartered?
- KeyDB is headquartered in Toronto, CA.