Continuent
Continuent provides Tungsten Cluster, a database high-availability, disaster-recovery, and replication platform for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL, sold via per-server subscription to SaaS, e-commerce, financial services, gaming, and telecom enterprises worldwide.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2004
- HeadquartersSan Francisco, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Continuent does
Continuent Ltd. is a privately held, San Francisco-headquartered software company founded in April 2004 (originally, then reacquired independence after a VMware acquisition in October 2014 and spin-off in October 2016) that develops database clustering and replication software for open-source relational databases, primarily MySQL and MariaDB, with PostgreSQL support added in the v8 release of May 2025. Its core product, Tungsten Cluster, is a comprehensive high-availability, disaster-recovery, and geo-clustering platform composed of three technical components—Tungsten Connector (proxy/routing), Tungsten Manager (orchestration/failover), and Tungsten Replicator (data replication)—and is offered in four topology variants (STA, CAP, CAA, DAA) supporting single-cluster through multi-region active/active deployments across on-premises, cloud, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
The product portfolio also includes Tungsten Replicator (which extracts from MySQL and replicates to targets including PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS Redshift, Oracle, MongoDB, and Clickhouse), Tungsten Dashboard for web-based cluster management, Tungsten Operator for Kubernetes (GA May 2025), Tungsten Copilot for AI-assisted issue diagnosis (launched November 2024), and Tungsten MI (TMI) for AWS Marketplace deployments. Continuent monetizes through per-server subscription licensing on 1-year or 3-year auto-renewing terms, with 24/7/365 support bundled for business-critical deployments.
The go-to-market is enterprise field sales with no disclosed reseller or marketplace-led channel; named customers include Adobe, Broadcom, Carfax, Vonage, and Marketo across SaaS, e-commerce, financial services, gaming, and telco verticals. The company maintains a globally distributed team of 11-50 employees, with senior leadership holding decades of database engineering and DBA experience.
Continuent firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Continuent
- Legal name
- Continuent Ltd.
- Website
- https://continuent.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2004
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Continuent provides Tungsten Cluster, a database high-availability, disaster-recovery, and replication platform for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL, sold via per-server subscription to SaaS, e-commerce, financial services, gaming, and telecom enterprises worldwide.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Continuent industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Database Clustering and Replication Software
- NAICS
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Database Tools & Ecosystem (Replication, Backup/Recovery, HA/DR, Monitoring) (HDAEAAAO)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- High Availability & Failover Clustering (HDABAIAC), Hybrid Cloud Compute & Virtualization Stack (HCI/VMs/Kubernetes) (HDABAMAF), High Availability & Failover Architecture Services (BPAEALAE)
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Where Continuent is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- San Francisco
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Continuent business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others
Revenue model
- Per-Server Subscription License: Continuent licenses the Tungsten software on a per-server subscription basis. The Commercial License is nontransferable, nonexclusive, and worldwide, granting rights to use, execute, and display the Licensed Software for the customer's own internal business operations. Subscriptions run for an Initial Term (e.g., 1-year or 3-year) and auto-renew for successive equal terms unless 30-day written notice of non-renewal is provided. Subscription fees are paid per-server.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Multi-year contract | Per-server subscription license with optional 1-year or 3-year terms |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels11 records
Continuent product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Continuent develops and licenses Tungsten Cluster, a comprehensive high availability, disaster recovery, and geo-clustering software for MySQL, MariaDB, and (as of v8) PostgreSQL databases. The flagship Tungsten Cluster stack comprises Tungsten Connector (proxy/routing), Tungsten Manager (orchestration/failover), and Tungsten Replicator (data replication), delivered as four deployment topologies (STA, CAP, CAA, DAA) with supporting products including Tungsten Dashboard, Tungsten Operator for Kubernetes, Tungsten Copilot (AI support), and Tungsten MI for AWS Marketplace.
Product overview
Continuent provides a suite of database high availability, disaster recovery, and replication solutions under the Tungsten brand. The core offering is Tungsten Cluster, the most comprehensive MySQL and MariaDB high availability and disaster recovery solution, available in four topology variants: STA (Standalone High Availability) for single-cluster deployments, CAP (Composite Active/Passive) for HA with DR, CAA (Composite Active/Active) for multi-site writeable deployments, and DAA (Dynamic Active/Active) combining simplicity with automated failover. The product portfolio also includes Tungsten Replicator for advanced replication to multiple targets, Tungsten Dashboard for web-based cluster management, Tungsten Operator for Kubernetes environments, Tungsten Copilot for AI-powered support, and Tungsten MI (TMI) for AWS Marketplace deployments. The v8 release expanded support to include PostgreSQL alongside MySQL and MariaDB.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Tungsten Cluster: The Most Comprehensive MySQL and MariaDB High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution - a complete solution for MySQL HA, disaster recovery, and geo-clustering that works on-premises and in the cloud.
- Tungsten Replicator
- Tungsten Dashboard
- Tungsten Operator
- Tungsten Copilot
Products and services
- Tungsten Cluster The most comprehensive MySQL and MariaDB high availability, disaster recovery, and geo-clustering software, providing automatic failover, recovery, and failback for business-critical database applications across on-premises, cloud, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
- Tungsten STA (Standalone High Availability) Cluster Advanced MySQL high availability solution for a single cluster with automatic failover and recovery, ideal for organizations needing reliable database availability without multi-site complexity.
- Tungsten CAP (Composite Active/Passive) Cluster Composite Active/Passive topology providing both high availability and disaster recovery with seamless failover capabilities and automated datacenter-level DR via the ability to move all writes to another site at will.
- Tungsten CAA (Composite Active/Active) Cluster Composite Active/Active topology for businesses needing multiple sites with writable MySQL instances, providing higher local update performance, advanced HA, automated DR, and geographic scaling.
- Tungsten DAA (Dynamic Active/Active) Cluster Dynamic Active/Active solution combining simplicity of Active/Passive with automated continuous operations; DAA Connectors automatically reroute writes to available clusters with automated failover, avoiding write conflicts.
- Tungsten Replicator Advanced MySQL data replication solution supporting extraction from MySQL databases and replication into MySQL, AWS Redshift, Vertica, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Oracle, Cassandra, Clickhouse, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, and MongoDB (including MongoDB Atlas).
- Tungsten Dashboard Web-based graphical interface for managing and monitoring MySQL clusters with improved usability, security, and real-time monitoring capabilities.
- Tungsten Operator for Kubernetes Kubernetes-native operator for deploying, managing, and scaling Tungsten Clustering in Kubernetes environments with automation and built-in high availability.
- Tungsten Copilot AI-powered tool for boosting issue diagnosis and customer support efficiency, representing the first step in Continuent's broader strategy to improve automation across customer service operations.
- Tungsten MI (TMI) Tungsten Machine Image for Amazon Marketplace providing pre-configured AMI deployments of Tungsten Clustering and Replicator solutions with simplified deployment wizards and CloudFormation support.
Quantifiable outcome
- Failover typically completes in under 1 minute (RTO), with 100% RPO (Recovery Point Objective) — zero data loss under the vast majority of conditions
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Companies that use Continuent
Customer profileNamed customers6 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Continuent technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
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AI maturity
App detail
AI capability3 records
Feature10 records
Continuent partnerships and signals
Strategic signalScale indicators5 records
Recent moves7 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Continuent competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Severalnines: Severalnines offers ClusterControl, a competing database operations and clustering management platform that supports MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB HA/DR. It targets the same enterprise DBAs and emits a near-overlapping set of capabilities around automated failover, backup, and monitoring, making it the closest head-to-head competitor to Tungsten Cluster.
- Percona: Percona provides open-source database distributions, managed services, and support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, including Percona XtraDB Cluster for HA. Percona competes with Continuent for enterprise database support and HA/DR spending, especially in MySQL-centric shops, and is a frequent co-mention in the same analyst and conference circuits (e.g., Percona Live).
- Vitess / PlanetScale: Vitess is an open-source horizontally-scalable MySQL clustering and sharding layer originated at YouTube and now CNCF-hosted, with PlanetScale as its best-known commercial deployment. It addresses the same MySQL horizontal scaling and HA problem space as Tungsten Cluster, particularly for hyperscale, cloud-native MySQL workloads.
Broad incumbents
- MariaDB Corporation: MariaDB Corporation ships MariaDB Enterprise with built-in HA, replication, and MaxScale proxy capabilities, offering an alternative that bundles clustering into the database license itself. Enterprises evaluating Tungsten often compare against MariaDB's integrated HA stack, especially when consolidating vendors.
- Amazon Web Services (RDS / Aurora): Amazon RDS for MySQL/MariaDB and Aurora provide managed high availability, replication, and automated failover as cloud-native services, eliminating the need for an external HA layer in many deployments. It is the de facto alternative considered by enterprises deciding between Tungsten and a fully managed cloud database.
- Quest Software / SharePlex: SharePlex by Quest is an established enterprise replication and data movement platform historically positioned for Oracle and now supporting MySQL/PostgreSQL. It competes in the same replication-to-heterogeneous-targets category as Tungsten Replicator within larger enterprise accounts.
Emerging players
- ProxySQL: ProxySQL is an open-source MySQL proxy providing routing, read/write splitting, and failover primitives that overlap with parts of Tungsten Connector. It competes on the proxy and query-routing layer that sits in front of MySQL HA topologies, often being evaluated as a free alternative to Tungsten components.
- Galera Cluster (Codership): Galera Cluster is an open-source synchronous multi-master replication solution for MySQL and MariaDB that powers Percona XtraDB Cluster and MariaDB HA setups. It is the most common open-source alternative for the synchronous replication primitive that underpins many Tungsten topologies.
- YugabyteDB: YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database offering PostgreSQL-compatible HA, geo-distribution, and horizontal scaling. It is a relevant adjacent peer as enterprises consider PostgreSQL-native alternatives to operating replicated MySQL with Tungsten.
- Crate.io (CrateDB): CrateDB provides a distributed SQL database with built-in HA and horizontal scaling for IoT and operational data workloads. It overlaps with Continuent's geo-distribution and high-availability narrative for organizations seeking alternatives to manually clustered MySQL.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Continuent leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles10 records
Continuent funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Continuent M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Continuent
What does Continuent do?
Continuent develops and licenses Tungsten Cluster, a comprehensive high availability, disaster recovery, and geo-clustering software for MySQL, MariaDB, and (as of v8) PostgreSQL databases. The flagship Tungsten Cluster stack comprises Tungsten Connector (proxy/routing), Tungsten Manager (orchestration/failover), and Tungsten Replicator (data replication), delivered as four deployment topologies (STA, CAP, CAA, DAA) with supporting products including Tungsten Dashboard, Tungsten Operator for Kubernetes, Tungsten Copilot (AI support), and Tungsten MI for AWS Marketplace.
Is Continuent a public or private company?
Continuent is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was Continuent founded?
Continuent was founded in 2004. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Continuent based?
Continuent is headquartered in San Francisco, United States, in the North America region.
How does Continuent make money?
One revenue line is on record: per-Server Subscription License.
Who are Continuent's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Severalnines, Percona and Vitess / PlanetScale. Broad incumbents are MariaDB Corporation, Amazon Web Services (RDS / Aurora) and Quest Software / SharePlex. Emerging players are ProxySQL, Galera Cluster (Codership), YugabyteDB and Crate.io (CrateDB).
Does Continuent have an API?
Yes. Tungsten REST APIv2 allows programmatic access to cluster management and monitoring. The tapi command enables command-line interface to the REST APIv2. API supports full-access configuration with SSL encryption and authentication. Developer documentation is at docs.continuent.com.
What industry is Continuent in?
Continuent's product category is Database Clustering and Replication Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEAAAO, Database Tools & Ecosystem (Replication, Backup/Recovery, HA/DR, Monitoring), with a secondary code of HDABAIAC, High Availability & Failover Clustering. Its NAICS code is 54151 and its SIC code is 7370.