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I'm struggling to understand how this company has raised $50 million dollars when db companies with paying customers like RethinkDB and FoundationDB had to shut down.

They are gonna earn back $50 million by selling...a backups tool?

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I think one major difference is that it's a drop in replacement for certain SQL products, plus a major selling point of NoSQL - good horizontal scaling.

RethinkDB and FoundationDB are great, but require a paradigm shift I think.

Free open source ops tools + enterprise support is a pretty solid business. For recent-ish DB companies see Mongo, Elastic, Redis, MemSQL, etc.

I'm excited to track this project!

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