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The 10 Hottest Big Data Startups of 2022
Rick Whiting
Businesses are looking to next-generation database systems, data transformation and integration tools and big data analytics software to help them leverage exploding volumes of data. Here’s a look at 10 hot big data startups developing leading-edge software and services that help solution providers and customers meet their big data challenges.
OtterTune
CEO: Andy Pavlo
Headquarters: Pittsburgh
OtterTune offers a database tuning, optimization and configuration service that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate database maintenance and administration tasks that today are generally performed manually.
The startup’s service works by collecting data about a database’s underlying hardware, configuration and operational metrics and uses machine learning to optimize more than 100 configuration settings and improve database performance. Currently the service works with the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and more recently expanded its support to include the Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases.
OtterTune was founded in 2020 by database management and machine learning researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and its technology based on their work there. In May OtterTune raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Intel Capital and Race Capital.
