Built on Timely Dataflow and Differential Dataflow, open source frameworks created by cofounder Frank McSherry at Microsoft Research.
Funded by firms with a track record of success in databases.
Data and Engineering Teams at industry-leading companies run production workloads at scale in Materialize.
Materialize builds on frameworks originally developed at Microsoft Research.
Materialize cofounder Frank McSherry and his collaborators first share their work on Timely Dataflow, in a paper while working at Microsoft Research.
Frank begins an open source project on timely dataflow written in Rust, the foundational building block on which Materialize is built.
Materialize founded by Arjun Narayan and Frank McSherry.
$8.5m Series A from Lightspeed, still in stealth
First public release of Materialize as a source-available single binary, built in Rust.
Materialize unbundles the single binary into a cloud-native distributed system to unlock the next phase of scale.