# RisingWave

> RisingWave is a distributed SQL streaming database that lets developers ingest, transform, and serve real-time data using familiar PostgreSQL-compatible SQL instead of specialized stream-processing frameworks. Founded in 2021 by former AWS Redshift engineer Yingjun Wu, the San Francisco company decouples compute from storage in a cloud-native architecture, offers incremental materialized views, and integrates natively with Apache Iceberg to power a streaming lakehouse. Its open-source engine and managed RisingWave Cloud target fraud detection, monitoring, real-time analytics, and increasingly the data infrastructure behind agentic AI.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Yingjun Wu (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~43 employees
- **Products:** RisingWave (open-source), RisingWave Cloud, RisingWave Open Lake / Streaming Lakehouse
- **Notable:** Reached 5,000+ deployments and 100+ long-running clusters within 28 days of open-source launch, Raised $36M Series A (2022), bringing total funding to over $40M, Built a streaming database engine from scratch in Rust

## Products & services

- **RisingWave (open-source)** — A distributed SQL streaming database written in Rust that continuously ingests, transforms, and serves event streams. PostgreSQL wire-compatible, with incremental materialized views, exactly-once semantics, sub-100ms latency, and decoupled compute-storage architecture.
- **RisingWave Cloud** — Fully managed cloud service for RisingWave, removing operational overhead for deploying and scaling streaming pipelines. RisingWave Cloud V2 shipped as a ground-up control-plane rewrite for 2026.
- **RisingWave Open Lake / Streaming Lakehouse** — Native Apache Iceberg integration built by contributors to the Iceberg Rust project - combines catalog hosting, streaming ingestion, and automatic table compaction with full query-engine interoperability (Spark, Trino, Databricks).

## Achievements

- Reached 5,000+ deployments and 100+ long-running clusters within 28 days of open-source launch
- Raised $36M Series A (2022), bringing total funding to over $40M
- Built a streaming database engine from scratch in Rust
- Became an early and active contributor to the Apache Iceberg Rust project
- Adopted by 1,000+ organizations including PepsiCo, Siemens, and Robinhood
- Launch partner for Databricks open-format initiatives (2025)

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Published guidance on Apache Iceberg streaming integration for 2026 and continued work toward full Iceberg V3 support (deletion vectors, row lineage, VARIANT).
- **2026-01** — Repositioned as 'Streaming Infrastructure for Agentic AI,' emphasizing real-time data for AI agents.
- **2026-01** — Shipped RisingWave Cloud V2, a ground-up rewrite of the cloud control plane.
- **2025-06** — Announced integration with Databricks, delivering real-time stream processing to the Databricks lakehouse.

## Links

- Website: https://risingwave.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/risingwave
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/RisingWaveLabs
- GitHub: https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave
- YouTube: https://go.risingwave.com/youtube

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Last updated: 2026-07-10