Curios if they got any large bank or stock exchange to use TigerBeetle
At a national level, we’re working with the Gates Foundation to integrate TigerBeetle into their non-profit central bank switch that will be powering Rwanda’s National Digital Payments System 2.0 later this year [1].
At an enterprise level, TigerBeetle already powers customers processing 100M+ transactions per month in production, and we recently signed our first $2B fintech unicorn in Europe with a few more in the US about to close. Because of the move to realtime transaction processing around the world [2] there’s been quite a bit of interest from companies wanting to move to TigerBeetle for more performance.
Finally, to your question, some of the founders of Clear Street, a fairly large brokerage on Wall Street have since invested [3] in TigerBeetle.
[1] https://mojaloop.io/how-mojaloop-enables-rndps-2-0-ekash/
[2] https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2024-07-23-rediscovering-transa...
"Invested" in terms of "giving you money" or in terms of "Now uses the database themselves"? I read it as the first, but I think the question is about usage, not investments.
- The investment in TigerBeetle was done personally, not through Clear Street.
- I'm no longer actively involved day-to-day as CTO at Clear Street, but while I was, TigerBeetle was a solution we very much had in mind as our volumes were increasing.
That said, roadmaps change, priorities shift, etc. If TigerBeetle existed when we started Clear Street, I very much would have used it, and saved me from many headaches.
Form the developer perspective, the big thing is that we don't have any dependencies, so updating compiler for us is just a small amount of work once in a while, and not your typical ecosystem-wide coordination problem. Otherwise, Zig's pretty much "finished" for our use-case, it more or less just works.
But, no. On the commercial side, I don't think we've had one conversation with a prospect or CTO or engineering team where they were concerned that we picked a systems language for the next thirty years. And while Zig is a beautiful, perfect replacement for C, I think the real reason the question has never come up, is that our customers come to us instead of us to them. We're not trying to convince anyone. They're already appreciating the extensive end-to-end testing we do on everything we ship.
However, I should emphasize again, that given all the assertions, fuzzing and DST we do, Zig's quality can't be overstated. It holds up.
Otherwise check out https://tigerbeetle.com/company if you want more about the corporate side.