Company:Rockset

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Rockset Inc.
TypePrivate company
FoundedSeptember 28, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-28)
Founders
  • Venkat Venkataramani
  • Dhruba Borthakur
HeadquartersSan Mateo, California, U.S.
Key people
Venkat Venkataramani (CEO & Co-founder)
Dhruba Borthakur (CTO & Co-founder)
Shruti Bhat (CPO & SVP Marketing)
Tudor Bosman (Chief architect)
Ryan Precious (VP Sales)
Number of employees
90 (March 29, 2022)
Websiterockset.com

Rockset is an American software company that was founded in 2016[1] by software engineers who gained experience in web-scale data management and distributed systems at companies including Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, Oracle and VMware.[2] Its product, Rockset, is a real-time analytics database that enables developers to build data-driven applications while eliminating the complexity inherent in other common data infrastructures.[3] Rockset can be used to build data applications that enable intelligent decisions on real-time data, such as business decision systems, customer 360 applications, vision AI based automation, gaming leaderboards, logistics, security analytics, recommendation engines, and IoT applications.[4]

Rockset office in San Mateo, California

Products

Rockset is a cloud-based, real-time analytics database that is designed to enable queries on massive, semi-structured data while eliminating operational burden.[5] Rockset is serverless and fully managed,[6] offloading the work of managing configuration, cluster provisioning, denormalization, and shard/index management.[7] Ingested data is queryable after 1–2 seconds and analytical queries against that data typically execute in milliseconds.[8] Using Rockset's Converged Index™,[9] all data is indexed three ways—column, row, and search—at the time of ingestion.[10] The SQL query optimizer examines each query and chooses an execution plan that will optimize performance.[11]

Rockset uses RocksDB, an open source key-value store to store data.[12] RocksDB was created at Facebook by Rockset co-founder and CTO Dhruba Borthakur[13] in April 2012. RocksDB is used in production systems at various web-scale enterprises including Facebook, Yahoo!,[14] and LinkedIn.[15]

Rockset is SOC 2 Type II compliant and offers encryption at rest and in flight, securing and protecting any sensitive data.[16]

Funding

Rockset is privately-held and has received three funding rounds totaling $61.5M.

Funding Rounds
Series Date Amount (million $) Lead Investors
Seed June 1, 2016 3[17] Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners
A November 1, 2018 18.5[18] Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners
B October 27, 2020 40[19] Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners

References

  1. Miller, Ron (October 27, 2022). "Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics solution gains momentum". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/27/rockset-announces-40m-series-b-as-data-analytics-solution-gains-momentum/#:~:text=The%20company%20was%20founded%20in,million%20A%20round%20in%202018.. 
  2. Leopold, George (November 1, 2018). "Rockset, SQL Cloud Service, Emerges from Stealth". Tabor Communications. https://www.datanami.com/2018/11/01/rockset-sql-cloud-service-emerges-from-stealth/. 
  3. Clark, Lindsay (August 27, 2021). "Rockset hopes to lessen streaming analytics time-suck by having SQL transform live data". https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/27/rockset_sql_transforms/. 
  4. Dabrinze, Victor (March 23, 2022). "Rockset takes aim at real-time analytics for powerful operational intelligence". siliconANGLE. https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/23/rockset-takes-aim-real-time-analytics-powerful-operational-intelligence-awsshowcases2e2/. 
  5. Hall, Susan (November 22, 2018). "Rockset: Fast SQL Querying on Raw Data". https://thenewstack.io/rockset-fast-sql-querying-on-raw-data/. 
  6. Wheatley, Mike (March 19, 2019). "Rockset launches its serverless data platform". SiliconANGLE Media. https://siliconangle.com/2019/03/19/rockset-launches-serverless-data-preparation-tool/. 
  7. Baer, Tony (October 27, 2020). "Rockset boosted with $40 million Series B venture round". ZDNet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/rockset-boosted-with-40-million-series-b-venture-round/. 
  8. Heller, Martin (October 17, 2019). "Rockset review: Real-time for operational data". InfoWorld. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3446026/rockset-review-real-time-sql-for-operational-data.html. 
  9. Wiggers, Kyle (October 27, 2020). "Rockset raises $40 million to index and analyze data at scale". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/2020/10/27/rockset-raises-40-million-to-index-and-analyze-data-at-scale/. 
  10. Handy, Tristan (April 25, 2021). "The Metrics Layer. Speculative Fiction. What's Happening in a NN? Rockset. Open BI. Data-as-a-Product. [DSR #250"]. Substack. https://roundup.getdbt.com/p/the-metrics-layer-speculative-fiction-what-s-happening-in-a-nn-rockset-open-bi-data-as-a-product-dsr-250-575402?s=r. 
  11. Wayner, Peter (July 17, 2021). "Rockset CEO on mission to bring real-time analytics to the stack". https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/17/rockset-ceo-on-mission-to-bring-real-time-analytics-to-the-stack/. 
  12. "A persistent key-value store for fast storage environments". http://rocksdb.org/. 
  13. "Evolution of Development Priorities in Key-value Stores Serving Large-scale Applications: The RocksDB Experience". https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast21/presentation/dong. 
  14. Ewbank, Kay (April 30, 2015). "RocksDB on Steroids". http://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/8542-rocksdb-on-steroids.html. 
  15. Feng, Tao (August 24, 2015). "Benchmarking Apache Samza: 1.2 million messages per second on a single node". https://engineering.linkedin.com/performance/benchmarking-apache-samza-12-million-messages-second-single-node. 
  16. "Rockset Enhances Real-Time Analytics Database With Enterprise-Grade Security And Compliance". September 30, 2021. https://aithority.com/security/rockset-enhances-real-time-analytics-database-with-enterprise-grade-security-and-compliance/. 
  17. FinSMEs (November 1, 2018). "Rockset Raises $21.5M in Seed and Series A Funding". Finsmes.com. https://www.finsmes.com/2018/11/rockset-raises-21-5m-in-seed-and-series-a-funding.html. 
  18. Miller, Ron (November 1, 2018). "Rockset launches out of stealth with $21.5 M investment". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/rockset-launches-out-of-stealth-with-21-5-m-investment/. 
  19. Miller, Ron (October 27, 2020). "Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics solution gains momentum". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/27/rockset-announces-40m-series-b-as-data-analytics-solution-gains-momentum/. 

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