Tembo Data Systems Inc., a company specializing in PostgreSQL managed services, has successfully closed a million Series A funding round, bringing its total financing to .5 million. This developer-focused company aims to simplify the installation and management of PostgreSQL and its extensive ecosystem of over 200 extensions. Tembo’s strategy revolves around its custom-built package manager and registry, Trunk, designed to make these extensions readily available.
Loved by Developers
PostgreSQL is renowned for its popularity among developers. According to Stack Overflow’s annual survey, it is the most admired, desired, and popular database. Additionally, SolidIT Consulting & Software Development GmbH’s DB-Engines site ranks it as the fourth most popular DBMS.
However, PostgreSQL’s complexity increases significantly with the addition of extensions. In a Medium post from a year ago, Tembo’s founder, Ry Walker, highlighted the challenges of creating a self-managed cluster of Postgres clusters. Database administrators must consider infrastructure, environment, security, data management, backups, and workload-specific tuning. Furthermore, maintaining and scaling Postgres involves high availability requirements, data storage management, schema updates, query performance optimization, and failover protection and caching.
The company also noted that the average enterprise uses seven different database vendors, leading to complexity and sprawl. Tembo criticized the weak support levels from managed service providers who prefer to sell services based on costlier proprietary databases.
Simpler to Use
Tembo aims to streamline Postgres deployment with a virtualized runtime experience, one-click migrations, and access to the largest Postgres ecosystem. “Developers can control the data model lifecycle and deploy to multiple zones and clouds,” Walker wrote on Medium. Advanced options will include autoscaling, hybrid transactional and analytical processing, and edge caching. A feature called Stacks enables developers to quickly create and deploy custom-built combinations of PostgreSQL and extensions.
The new capital will be used to fund new hires, advertising, product development, and developer relations. “In the same way that Oracle transformed databases and the cloud, Tembo is poised to change our understanding of what Postgres can do,” said GreatPoint Ventures Managing Partner Ray Lane, who was previously president of Oracle Corp.
GreatPoint Ventures led the investment, with participation from Venrock Management, Grand Ventures, Wireframe Management, Defined Capital, Cintrifuse Early Stage Capital Fund, and angel investors.
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