About RisingWave
Making Real-Time Data Accessible to Every Developer
We believe stream processing shouldn't require a PhD or a dedicated infrastructure team. RisingWave is the streaming database that lets any developer process real-time data with SQL they already know.
2021
Founded
San Francisco
Headquarters
$40M+
Raised
8.9K
GitHub Stars
Our Founder
“RisingWave's mission is to democratize stream processing — to make it simple, affordable, and accessible.”
Yingjun Wu
Founder & CEO
Previously a software engineer on the AWS Redshift team and a researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center. PhD from the National University of Singapore, visiting PhD at Carnegie Mellon University.
What We Believe
Principles That Shape How We Build
SQL-First, Always
Every developer knows SQL. We believe real-time data processing shouldn't require learning a new framework — just write a query.
Correctness Over Speed
Fast but wrong is worse than useless. We guarantee exactly-once semantics and strong consistency — because financial-grade applications demand it.
Open Source at the Core
RisingWave is open source. We believe the best infrastructure earns trust through transparency, not vendor lock-in.
Cloud-Native by Design
Built from day one for the cloud — disaggregated storage, elastic scaling, and zero-downtime upgrades. Not a monolith wrapped in containers.
Leadership
Built by Engineers Who've Scaled the World's Largest Data Systems
Our team includes experienced database researchers and engineers from AWS Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Uber.
Patrick Huang
Chief Technology Officer
Rayees Pasha
Chief Product Officer
Samuel Hu
Chief Solutions Officer
