<s>
DataStax	B-General_Concept
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
is	O
a	O
real-time	O
data	O
company	O
based	O
in	O
Santa	O
Clara	O
,	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
product	O
Astra	O
DB	O
is	O
a	O
cloud	O
database-as-a-service	O
based	O
on	O
Apache	B-Application
Cassandra	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
DataStax	B-General_Concept
also	O
offers	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
Enterprise	O
(	O
DSE	O
)	O
,	O
an	O
on-premises	O
database	O
built	O
on	O
Apache	B-Application
Cassandra	I-Application
,	O
and	O
Astra	O
Streaming	O
,	O
a	O
messaging	O
and	O
event	O
streaming	O
cloud	O
service	O
based	O
on	O
Apache	O
Pulsar	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DataStax	B-General_Concept
was	O
built	O
on	O
the	O
open	O
source	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
database	O
Apache	B-Application
Cassandra	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cassandra	B-Application
was	O
initially	O
developed	O
internally	O
at	O
Facebook	B-Application
to	O
handle	O
large	B-Application
data	I-Application
sets	I-Application
across	O
multiple	O
servers	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
released	O
as	O
an	O
Apache	O
open	O
source	O
project	O
in	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
Jonathan	O
Ellis	O
and	O
Matt	O
Pfeil	O
left	O
Rackspace	O
,	O
where	O
they	O
had	O
worked	O
with	O
Cassandra	B-Application
,	O
to	O
launch	O
Riptano	O
in	O
Austin	O
,	O
Texas	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ellis	O
and	O
Pfeil	O
later	O
renamed	O
the	O
company	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
moved	O
its	O
headquarters	O
to	O
Santa	O
Clara	O
,	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
went	O
on	O
to	O
create	O
its	O
own	O
enterprise	O
version	O
of	O
Cassandra	B-Application
,	O
a	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
database	O
called	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
Enterprise	O
(	O
DSE	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
1.0	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
October	O
2011	O
,	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
commercial	O
distribution	O
of	O
the	O
Cassandra	B-Application
database	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
provide	O
real-time	O
application	O
performance	O
and	O
heavy	O
analytics	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
physical	O
infrastructure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2014	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
raised	O
in	O
a	O
Series	O
E	O
funding	O
round	O
,	O
raising	O
the	O
total	O
investment	O
in	O
the	O
company	O
to	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2016	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
Enterprise	O
Graph	O
,	O
adding	O
graph	O
data	O
model	O
functionality	O
to	O
DSE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2017	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
announced	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
its	O
DSE	O
platform	O
5.1	O
,	O
which	O
included	O
improved	O
search	O
capabilities	O
,	O
improved	O
security	O
control	O
,	O
improvements	O
to	O
its	O
Graph	O
data	O
management	O
and	O
improvements	O
to	O
operational	O
analytics	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DataStax	B-General_Concept
also	O
announced	O
a	O
shift	O
in	O
strategy	O
,	O
with	O
an	O
added	O
focus	O
on	O
customer	O
experience	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2018	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
released	O
DSE	O
6	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
new	O
version	O
focused	O
on	O
businesses	O
using	O
a	O
hybrid	O
cloud	O
computing	O
model	O
,	O
with	O
all	O
the	O
benefits	O
of	O
a	O
distributed	O
cloud	O
database	O
on	O
any	O
public	O
cloud	O
or	O
on-premise	O
,	O
twice	O
the	O
responsiveness	O
and	O
ability	O
to	O
handle	O
twice	O
the	O
throughput	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2018	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
released	O
DSE	O
6.7	O
,	O
which	O
offers	O
enterprise	O
customers	O
five	O
key	O
new	O
feature	O
upgrades	O
,	O
including	O
:	O
improved	O
analytics	O
,	O
geospatial	O
search	O
,	O
improved	O
data	O
protection	O
in	O
the	O
cloud	O
,	O
enhanced	O
performance	O
insights	O
and	O
new	O
developer	O
integration	O
tools	O
with	O
our	O
Apache	O
Kafka	O
Connector	O
and	O
certified	O
production	O
Docker	O
images	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2020	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
released	O
DSE	O
6.8	O
,	O
offering	O
enterprises	O
new	O
capabilities	O
for	O
bare-metal	O
performance	O
and	O
to	O
support	O
more	O
workloads	O
,	O
and	O
serving	O
as	O
a	O
Kubernetes	O
operator	O
for	O
Cassandra	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2020	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
released	O
Astra	O
DB	O
,	O
a	O
DBaaS	O
for	O
Cassandra	B-Application
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
cloud	O
services	O
such	O
as	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
and	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2021	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
announced	O
the	O
serverless	O
version	O
of	O
Astra	O
DB	O
,	O
offering	O
developers	O
pay-as-you-go	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2020	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
released	O
K8ssandra	O
,	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
distribution	O
of	O
Cassandra	B-Application
on	O
Kubernetes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2020	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
released	O
Stargate	O
,	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
data	O
API	O
gateway	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2020	O
,	O
Mergermarket	O
reported	O
that	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
was	O
preparing	O
for	O
an	O
initial	O
public	O
offering	O
that	O
could	O
launch	O
in	O
2021	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
in	O
June	O
2022	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
CEO	O
Chet	O
Kapoor	O
said	O
that	O
the	O
company	O
would	O
not	O
rush	O
into	O
an	O
IPO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2022	O
,	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
introduced	O
new	O
change	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
capture	I-General_Concept
(	O
CDC	O
)	O
capabilities	O
to	O
its	O
Astra	O
DB	O
cloud	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DataStax	B-General_Concept
leads	O
the	O
open-source	O
Starlight	O
,	O
</s>
<s>
DataStax	B-General_Concept
then	O
rebuilt	O
the	O
Kesque	O
technology	O
into	O
Astra	O
Streaming	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Astra	O
Streaming	O
can	O
connect	O
to	O
a	O
larger	O
data	O
platform	O
by	O
utilizing	O
DataStax	B-General_Concept
’s	O
Astra	O
DB	O
cloud	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
