What TigerBeetle does

TigerBeetle is a San Francisco-based private company that builds a distributed financial transactions database designed for mission-critical online transaction processing (OLTP). Founded in 2022, the company co-designs its global consensus protocol and local storage engine from first principles as a single integrated system, targeting workloads where general-purpose databases hit contention limits. The product delivers 100K-500K transactions per second with P100 latency under 100ms, supports over 1 billion accounts and transfers per cluster, and enforces strict serializability with append-only immutability. Core technical components include tiered storage spanning CPU caches to NVMe, static memory allocation (zero garbage collection), zero-copy/zero-deserialization fixed-size integer operations, batch processing of up to 8,189 transactions per query, and Direct I/O with io_uring. A universal debit/credit schema — two entities (accounts and transfers) and one invariant (every debit has an equal opposite credit) — allows the system to model any exchange of value.

The database is implemented in the Zig programming language and distributed under Apache 2.0 with no Contributor License Agreements required. TigerBeetle ships official client libraries for Python, Java, Node.js, .Net, and Go, and is installed via self-serve curl commands across Linux, macOS, and Windows. The primary customer segment is financial services — banks, fintechs, payment processors, and digital wallet providers — with secondary positioning in energy and utilities (smart meters, EV charging), gaming and virtual economies, logistics, and enterprise operations. Commercial monetization is through a separately sold enterprise tier offering support, SLAs, and dedicated services, with pricing not publicly disclosed. The company has raised approximately $30.4 million across a $6.4M Series Seed (January 2023, led by Amplify Partners and Coil) and a $24M Series A (July 2024, with Amplify Partners and Spark Capital). In October 2025, TigerBeetle and Synadia Communications jointly pledged $512,000 over two years to the Zig Software Foundation, reinforcing the company's stake in the language ecosystem. As of the most recent signals, the company has 11-50 employees, 16.3K GitHub stars, and 13.5K YouTube subscribers, and is led by founder and CEO Joran Dirk Greef.

Name

TigerBeetle

Legal name

TigerBeetle

Website

https://tigerbeetle.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TigerBeetle is a San Francisco-based company that develops an open-source distributed financial transactions database (Apache 2.0) designed for mission-critical OLTP, serving banks, fintechs, payment processors, and digital wallets requiring strict serializability and high-throughput debit/credit accounting.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Distributed OLTP Database

NAICS

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (522320), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Merchant Payment Gateways (API/Hosted Checkout) (FSAMACAA)

Keywords

• Distributed OLTP database
• Financial transactions database
• Debit credit accounting engine
• Open source database
• High throughput ledger database

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Open Source (Apache 2.0): Core database distributed under Apache 2.0 license with no Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) required. Free for production use.
2. Enterprise Support and Services: Enterprise tier offering commercial support, dedicated services, and advanced features for mission-critical financial deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

TigerBeetle builds and distributes a single distributed financial transactions database for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), co-designing the consensus protocol and local storage engine from first principles as a single integrated system. The product delivers 100K-500K TPS with under 100ms P100 latency, supports over 1 billion accounts per replicated cluster, and enforces a universal debit/credit schema with strict serializability. The core database is released under the Apache 2.0 license at no cost, with an enterprise tier offering commercial support and dedicated services for mission-critical financial deployments.

Product overview

TigerBeetle is a single-purpose, production-ready distributed financial transactions database. The product is a unified offering built around a core OLTP engine that enforces a debit/credit universal schema for strict consistency and strict serializability. The system supports up to 1 billion+ accounts and 8,189 transactions per query with zero locks and zero contention collapse. TigerBeetle ships as a standalone database with official client libraries for Python, Java, Node.js, .Net, and Go. No separate modules, tiers, or add-on products are named in the provided data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TigerBeetle (Distributed Financial Transactions Database) TigerBeetle is a distributed financial transactions database engineered for high-throughput Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload

Quantifiable outcome

• 100K-500K TPS vs ~100-1000 TPS for general-purpose databases under contention
• +3 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Synadia CommunicationscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 October 2025Jointly pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over two years to support development of the Zig programming language. Both companies use Zig for systems programming and have a shared interest in advancing the language ecosystem for high-performance and reliable systems.
• Zig Software FoundationminorOthers · 28 October 2025Recipient of $512,000 combined pledge from Synadia and TigerBeetle over two years. Non-profit organization developing the Zig programming language which TigerBeetle is built with.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Google Cloud Spanner: Globally distributed ACID SQL database offered as a managed cloud service with strong consistency guarantees. Represents the platform incumbent competing for the same high-throughput financial ledger use cases.
• PlanetScale (Vitess): MySQL-compatible distributed database built on Vitess, focused on horizontal sharding for large-scale transactional workloads including fintech. Represents a broader-purpose incumbent for financial OLTP at scale.

Direct peers

• FoundationDB: Open source distributed ACID database originally developed by Apple, targeting OLTP workloads with strong consistency guarantees. Directly comparable in architecture philosophy and financial-services applicability to TigerBeetle.
• CockroachDB: Distributed SQL database with PostgreSQL compatibility, strong consistency, and financial services customers. Competes directly for high-throughput OLTP ledger and transactional workloads that TigerBeetle also targets.
• YugabyteDB: Distributed SQL database built on a custom storage layer inspired by FoundationDB, offering PostgreSQL compatibility and horizontal scalability. Targets similar financial services and high-throughput OLTP use cases as TigerBeetle.
• VoltDB: In-memory NewSQL database purpose-built for high-velocity OLTP workloads including financial trading, fraud detection, and ledgers — closely overlapping TigerBeetle's core banking and payments target segments.

Emerging players

• SingleStore (formerly MemSQL): Real-time distributed SQL database focused on high-throughput OLTP and analytical workloads. Targets financial services and real-time processing use cases adjacent to TigerBeetle's OLTP emphasis.
• ScyllaDB: High-performance NoSQL database optimized for low-latency, high-throughput workloads. Comparable to TigerBeetle in performance-first design philosophy and applicability to financial services transactional systems.
• Aerospike: Real-time NoSQL database designed for extreme throughput at millisecond-level latency. Serves financial services and digital payment workloads overlapping with TigerBeetle's high-scale OLTP positioning.
• NuoDB: Distributed SQL database with a focus on continuous availability for cloud and on-premises financial workloads. Comparable to TigerBeetle for banking and ledger use cases requiring elastic scale and consistency.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@tigerbeetledb
• Xx.com/TigerBeetleDB

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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