Cockroach Labs

Short description: Software company, developer of CockroachDB

Cockroach Labs, Inc.

Type| Private
Industry| Software
Founded| 2015; 11 years ago (2015)
Founder| Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, Ben Darnell
Headquarters| New York City

Key people

| Spencer Kimball (CEO)
Peter Mattis (VP of Engineering)
Ben Darnell (CTO)
Nate Stewart (Chief Product Officer)
Lindsay Grenawalt (Chief People Officer)
Services| commercial database management systems
Website| www.cockroachlabs.com

Cockroach Labs is a computer software company that develops commercial database management systems.[1] It is best known for CockroachDB, which has been compared to Google Spanner.[2] CockroachDB is a project that is designed to store copies of data in multiple locations in order to deliver speedy access.[3][4] It is described as a scalable, consistently-replicated, transactional datastore.[5]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Corporate affairs
* 2.1 Leadership
* 2.2 Features
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

Cockroach Labs was founded in 2015 by ex-Google employees Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell. Prior to Cockroach Labs, Kimball and Mattis were key members of the Google File System team[6] while Darnell was a key member of the Google Reader team.[7] While at Google, all three had previously used Bigtable and were acquainted with its successor, Spanner.[2] After leaving Google, they wanted to design and build something similar for companies outside of Google. By June 2015, the company had nine CockroachDB engineers.[3]

Spencer Kimball wrote the first iteration of the design in January 2014, and began the open-source project on GitHub in February 2014, allowing outside access and contributions.[8] It attracted a community of experienced contributors, with the co-founders actively supporting the project with conferences, networking and meet-ups. Its collaborations on GitHub earned it Open Source Rookie of the Year, a title awarded by Black Duck Software to open-source projects.[9]

In June 2015, the company closed $6.25 million in funding from Benchmark, Sequoia, Google Ventures, and FirstMark Capital.[2] Benchmark's general partner Peter Fenton was named to the company's board of directors.[3] Additional investors included Hortonworks chief executive Rob Bearden, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi, and Cloudera co-founder Jeff Hammerbacher.[1]

In June 2019, Cockroach Labs announced that CockroachDB would change its license from the free software license Apache License 2.0 to a proprietary license.[10]

Cockroach Labs raised $55 million in a Series C round in August 2019, led by Altimeter Capital.[11]

## Corporate affairs

### Leadership

Cockroach Labs is managed by CEO and Co-Founder Spencer Kimball. Other key executives are:[12]

* Peter Mattis, CTO, Co-Founder
* Benjamin Darnell, Chief Architect, Co-Founder
* Jeff Miller, Chief Revenue Officer
* Nate Stewart, Chief Product Officer
* Lindsay Grenawalt, Chief People Officer

### Features

The database is scalable, in that a single instance can scale from a single laptop to thousands of servers.[2]

CockroachDB is designed to run in the cloud and be resilient to failures.[13] The result is a database that is described as "almost impossible" to take down.[14][4] Even if multiple servers or an entire datacenter were to go offline, CockroachDB would keep services online.[15]

## See also

* Comparison of relational database management systems
* Tech companies in the New York metropolitan area

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ovide, Shira (June 4, 2015). "CockroachDB Scampers Off With $6.3 Million to Tackle Database Shortcomings". The Wall Street Journal. https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/04/cockroachdb-scampers-off-with-6-3-million-to-tackle-database-shortcomings/.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Finley, Klint (June 4, 2015). "Ex-Googlers Get Millions to Help You Build the Next Google". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2015/06/cockroach-labs/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Novet, Jordan (June 4, 2015). "Peter Fenton's latest investment is a database startup called Cockroach". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/04/peter-fentons-latest-investment-is-a-database-startup-called-cockroach/.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Babcock, Charles (June 4, 2015). "CockroachDB: Ultimate in Database Survival". InformationWeek. https://www.informationweek.com/big-data/software-platforms/cockroachdb-ultimate-in-database-survival/d/d-id/1320700.
5. ↑ Darfler, Benjamin (August 29, 2014). "CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore". InfoQ. https://www.infoq.com/news/2014/08/CockroachDB/.
6. ↑ Metz, Cade (July 10, 2012). "Google Remakes Online Empire with 'Colossus'". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2012/07/google-colossus/.
7. ↑ Wauters, Robin (July 28, 2009). "Steal! Ben Darnell Leaves Google Reader Team, Joins FriendFeed". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/28/steal-ben-darnell-leaves-google-reader-team-joins-friendfeed/.
8. ↑ Ewbank, Kay (June 9, 2015). "CockroachDB Released". https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/8672-cockroachdb-released.html.
9. ↑ Finleey, Klint (January 28, 2015). "These are the hottest new open-source projects right now". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2015/01/black-duck-rookies/.
10. ↑ Mattis, Peter; Darnell, Ben; Kimball, Spencer (June 4, 2019). "Why We're Relicensing CockroachDB". https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/.
11. ↑ Miller, Ron (August 6, 2019). "Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants". https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/06/cockroach-labs-announces-55m-series-c-to-battle-giants/.
12. ↑ "Cockroach Labs is the company behind CockroachDB". https://www.cockroachlabs.com/about.
13. ↑ Finley, Klint (July 22, 2014). "CockroachDB is the resilient cloud software built by ex-Googlers". Wired. https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/22/cockroachdb.
14. ↑ Finley, Klint (July 21, 2014). "Out in the Open: Ex-Googlers Building Cloud Software That's Almost Impossible to Take Down". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2014/07/cockroachdb/.
15. ↑ Noto, Anthony (March 31, 2016). "Cockroach Labs crawls away with $20M from Benchmark, Google Ventures". BizJournals. https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2016/03/31/cockroach-labs-crawls-away-with-20m-from-benchmark.html.

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