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DataStax Stock (STAX)
DataStax offers a cloud platform, Astra DB, designed for real-time data workloads.This platform is intended to support the development of responsive AI applications.DataStax also provides a Generative AI Stack, a suite of tools that may empower businesses to build and scale data-driven applications that leverage generative AI techniques.
DataStax is the real-time data company for Gen AI applications.
About DataStax Stock
Founded
2010
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA, US
Total Funding
409M
Industries
Administrative Services, Sports, Content and Publishing
DataStax is a real-time cloud-based data management company. DataStax's mission is to help enterprises mobilize real-time data and build smart, high-scale applications required to become data-driven businesses. Their core product, Astra DB, is a vector database that acts as the data engine for responsive AI applications. Astra DB is one piece of a full Generative AI Stack offered by DataStax.
The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Notable investors in Datastax include Kleiner Perkins, Scale Venture Partners, and Meritech Capital Partners.
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DataStax Management
Leadership team at DataStax
Chief Executive Officer
Chet Kapoor
Chief Financial Officer
Don Dixon
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DataStax Key Facts
⢠DataStax is recognized as a player in distributed database management systems, specializing in Apache Cassandra, an open-source NoSQL database known for its scalability, high availability, and performance. The company offers DataStax Enterprise (DSE), a commercial version of Cassandra enhanced with enterprise-grade features, including security, analytics, and management tools.
⢠Cassandraâs decentralized architecture allows DataStax to deliver database solutions capable of handling petabytes of data with low-latency read and write operations. This scalability and performance are crucial for industries such as finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and retail, which require real-time data processing and analytics capabilities.
⢠DataStax actively contributes to the Apache Cassandra open-source community and participates in collaborative development efforts to enhance the performance, and reliability of Cassandra. By fostering community engagement and supporting open-source initiatives, DataStax strengthens its ecosystem and promotes adoption of Cassandra as a preferred database solution for modern applications.
⢠Changes in the governance or community support of Apache Cassandra could impact DataStaxâs ability to influence the development roadmap and prioritize features aligned with customer needs.
⢠The shift towards cloud-native database solutions and managed database services offered by cloud providers (e.g., AWS DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB) presents competitive threats to DataStaxâs traditional software licensing model. Enterprises increasingly prefer scalable, pay-as-you-go cloud database services that offer ease of deployment, automated management, and integration with other cloud services.
⢠DataStax operates in a competitive market with numerous database management system (DBMS) providers, including traditional relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL, as well as other NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB and Couchbase.
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