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Terark

Terark built a new storage engine for Database and Data Systems. Our technology enables direct search on highly compressed data, with 200X faster read performance and more than 10X storage savings (better than Google's LevelDB, Facebook's RocksDB), getting larger scalability with lower cost for big data applications. Alibaba is our paying customer, and we are a YCombinator company.

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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3796

Terark built a new storage engine for Database and Data Systems. Our technology enables direct search on highly compressed data, with 200X faster read performance and more than 10X storage savings (better than Google's LevelDB, Facebook's RocksDB), getting larger scalability with lower cost for big data applications. Alibaba is our paying customer, and we are a YCombinator company.

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Terark is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Alibababig data applicationsLevelDBtechnologyRocksDBYCombinator
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Per Vices

match 64

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shared extracted concept terms: application; shared product terms: application, performance, system, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Woz

match 54

WOZCODE is the highest performing, lowest cost AI coding agent. Available via Claude Code Plugin. The WOZCODE plugin outperforms Claude Code alone on all key metrics: Cost: 25-55% cheaper Speed: 5-10x faster on database tasks, 30-40% faster on most others Performance: beats Claude code on Terminal Bench 2.0 (68% vs 58%) Install with one command. Access directly via Claude Code Your tools, your workflows, but Better, Faster, Cheaper.

shared product terms: database, faster, performance, 10x; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

PeerDB

match 49

At PeerDB, we are building a fast, simple and the most cost effective way to stream data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage engines. If you are running Postgres at the heart of your data-stack and move data at scale from Postgres to any of the above targets, PeerDB can provide value. We support different modes of streaming - log based (CDC), cursor based (timestamp or integer) and XMIN based. Performance wise, we are 10x faster than existing tools. Features wise, we support nat

shared product terms: cost, storage, engine, performance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Texel.ai

match 48

Texel is a platform that enables developers to generate hardware-accelerated APIs for running AI pipelines 10 times faster, including image and video applications. For example, developers can use the latest NVIDIA GPUs or Google TPUs without having to become hardware experts themselves.

shared extracted concept terms: application; shared product terms: enable, faster, google, application; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Radical

match 46

Radical’s StratoSats are autonomous platforms that provide satellite-like services on demand. They fly within Earth’s atmosphere to provide persistent, high performance infrastructure across applications in earth observation, connectivity, and more. Unlike satellites, StratoSats navigate freely without the need for rocket launches or orbits - reducing costs, increasing flexibility, and ensuring customers get the targeted coverage they need.

shared product terms: performance, cost, application, customer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Mast

match 42

Mast is building a cloud-native mortgage origination system designed to help lenders process applications faster.

shared extracted concept terms: application; shared product terms: system, application, faster; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools