Yugabyte Inc. Founded

Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan, and Mikhail Bautin officially founded Yugabyte Inc., embarking on their journey to build an open-source distributed SQL database inspired by Google Spanner.

Significance

This marked the formal inception of the company and the beginning of YugabyteDB's development, committing to a vision of bringing enterprise-grade distributed SQL to the open-source community.

Key facts

Date
2016-04-01
Type
invention
Location
Sunnyvale, California, USA