Data infrastructure

Terark

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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,

Overview

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Data infrastructureInfrastructureBusinessesEnterpriseLicensing

Founders & team

2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

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Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedBeijing, Beijing, China
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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