{"id":15132,"date":"2019-05-23T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/andreessen-pours-22m-into-planetscales-database-as-a-service.html"},"modified":"2019-05-23T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:01:30","slug":"andreessen-pours-22m-into-planetscales-database-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/andreessen-pours-22m-into-planetscales-database-as-a-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen pours $22M into PlanetScale\u2019s database-as-a-service"},"content":{"rendered":"

PlanetScale\u2019s <\/a> founders invented the technology called Vitess that scaled YouTube and Dropbox. Now they\u2019re selling it to any enterprise that wants their data both secure and consistently accessible. And thanks to its ability to re-shard databases while they\u2019re operating, it can solve businesses\u2019 troubles with GDPR, which demands they store some data in the same locality as the user it belongs to.<\/p>\n

The potential to be a computing backbone<\/a> that both competes with and complements Amazon\u2019s AWS has now attracted a mammoth $22 million Series A for PlanetScale<\/a>. Led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by the firm\u2019s Cultural Leadership Fund, head of the US Digital Service Matt Cutts plus existing investor SignalFire, the round is a tall step up from the startup\u2019s $3 million seed it raised a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re discovering is that people we thought were at one point competitors, like AWS and hosted relational databases \u2014 we\u2019re discovering they may be our partners instead since we\u2019re seeing a reasonable demand for our services in front of AWS\u2019 hosted databases\u201d says CEO Jitendra Vaidya.<\/p>\n

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PlanetScale co-founders (from left): Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane<\/p>\n

Vitess, <\/a> a predescessor to Kubernetes, is a horizontal scaling sharding middleware built for MySQL. It lets businesses segment their database to boost memory efficiency without sacrificing reliable access speeds. PlanetScale sells Vitess in four ways: hosting on its database-as-a-service, licensing of the tech that can be run on-premises for clients or through another cloud provider, professional training for using Vitess, and on-demand support for users of the open-source version of Vitess.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have any concerns about the engineering side of things, but we need to figure out a go-to-market strategy for enterprises\u201d Vaidya explains. \u201cAs we\u2019re both technical co-founders, about half of our funding is going towards hiring those functions [outside of engineering], and making that part of our organization work well and get results.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They scaled YouTube \u2014 now they\u2019ll shard everyone with PlanetScale<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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