Clustrix – #5 on YC Startup Index – Raises $16.5M Series C

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25 points·kevin_morrill··8 comments

I don't understand; Clustrix (which rocks) isn't on the April index at all [1]. Is closing a round sufficient for it to debut at #5 for May? That doesn't seem very predictive.

[1] http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/05/april-2013-startup-in...

They were #1158 (-4.72 momentum) in the April index, which measures the momentum of the company in the month rather than it's overall rank in a list. The YC Startup Index and overall momentum index are two different lists with different methodologies, but I'll work on making that more clear.

Is anybody using any of Clustrix's products? Thoughts?

Check out a previous comment thread on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5068489

Blue Box did a big performance experiemtn / white paper with Clustrix last year. The results were impressive. The details can be found here: http://bit.ly/SzFnnA

FYI: For some reason, when I load the page, I see the Wordpress toolbar at the top. I can't do anything (like edit the post) since I'd have to login, but I still see the toolbar. It's a bit odd.

Agreed.

"Before Clustrix an entirely different kind of datastore, such as MongoDB, would be used. This requires developers to split up their data across multiple servers and use a map reduce algorithm in order to query across all the data."

Uhm, no.

Sharding is orthogonal to map-reduce, and you wouldn't use map-reduce on MongoDB or otherwise for anything OLTP. (MR on Mongo is SLOW)

Something that makes sharding easier/more automagic is nice though. I hate sharding anything that isn't Redis or MongoDB.

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