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Interview 09 of 211:09 PM · Moscone West

Dominik Durner

Co-Founder, CedarDB

One database for transactional and analytical workloads.

The full conversation

6:57 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

2:36 · Dominik's answers, condensed.

Clips

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Live analytics on fresh data

“So we are actually building a new database system. And the cool thing about our database system is that we combine transactional and analytical workloads in a single instance. Usually you had like ETL pipelines from a tr…”

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5 PhD co-founders, one database

“So actually all of the founders, like we have five founders, we all did our PhD back, we started in 2017, started with CedarDB actually back then as a research project. And two years ago, we basically spin out the CedarD…”

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Swap the IP address. That's it.

“So a lot of people run Postgres. And then they realize, okay, Postgres isn't good enough for analytics. So I add another system. For us, it's like, hey, you don't need that. You can just use CedarDB instead. And have eve…”

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PhDs: work on real problems

“So my advice is to work on topics which have real impact. A lot of PhD students work on very small niche problems. But you need to do a bit more research on what is an actual problem you have in industry. And if you have…”

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Faster on their benchmarks

“They are, for example, focused on one workload. Like most of the ones I mentioned, they are analytical systems. So they focus on making reads fast. But they are not really good in making small updates. And we are the fir…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

CedarDB team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026CedarDB team at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026