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The Coolest Database System Companies Of The 2022 Big Data 100
Rick Whiting
Part 2 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space.

Cockroach Labs
Top Executive: CEO Spencer Kimball
Cockroach Labs develops CockroachDB, a cloud-native, distributed SQL database that provides elasticity, a failure-resistant architecture and multi-cloud flexibility and can handle workloads with massive volumes of transactional data. The database is “designed for speed, scale and survival”—hence the Cockroach name.
The company also offers CockroachCloud, a fully managed cloud instance of CockroachDB.
In December New York-based Cockroach Labs raised $278 million in Series F funding, boosting the company’s valuation to $5 billion.
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