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- Robby (MTF) & Tim (Essence VC)
Data Tooling
Episode 126: RisingWave's Take on Launching a New Database
DATE:
AUTHOR:
Robby (MTF) & Tim (Essence VC)
Yingjun Wu is Founder of RisingWave, a new open source stream processing database.
RisingWave has raised $40M from investors including Yunqi Partners.
In this episode, we discuss RisingWave's approach versus Apache Flink and other stream processing frameworks, why stream processing is important for real-time monitoring use cases, why they initially focused on startups and how free support helped develop trust with these early users, key decisions around their product and why Postgres compatibility was crucial & more!
Full episode here