What Spectral Core Ltd does

Spectral Core Ltd builds database migration, translation, and security software for enterprises, governments, consulting firms, and startups. Founded around 2004 and headquartered in Pula, Croatia as the legal entity Spectral Core d.o.o., the company operates as a fully independent, fully distributed software vendor with no disclosed venture or private equity backing. Per company materials, 7,000+ teams across 100+ countries use its products and 20% of Fortune 100 companies are customers; named logos include Intel, Microsoft, Sony, Oracle, Boeing, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Philips, Pixar, CBS, National Geographic, Duke University, Deloitte, and others.

The company's technology stack centers on proprietary components including the Hummingbird SQL parser (claimed to be over 500x faster than ANTLR), the Pelican self-tuning in-memory parallel migration engine, a Deep Static Analysis Engine for SQL translation, and Behavioral Emulation to preserve source-platform semantics on target platforms. Flagship products include Full Convert (database migration in production since 2004), Omni Loader (high-performance data migration with CDC, 100TB+ and 10-billion-row table support), SQL Tran (AI-free semantic SQL dialect translation between Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Fabric Warehouse, Synapse, and others), Safe Boundary (a database security proxy launched in 2025 with sub-millisecond overhead, AI-driven PII/PHI masking, and proxy-layer row-level security), and Fabric Migration (a native Microsoft Fabric workload launched in 2024 combining SQL Tran and Omni Loader). The stack supports 50+ database engines natively, including legacy engines dating to 1998.

Spectral Core monetizes through tiered subscription pricing (Free, Startup, Pro, Business, Enterprise for Safe Boundary; $5,000/month Standard and $10,000/month Premium for Fabric Migration; custom multi-year contracts for Fabric Migration Enterprise and larger Safe Boundary deployments), plus outcome-based managed services for migration projects. Distribution combines self-serve direct sales, Microsoft AppSource and Microsoft Fabric Workload Hub listings, Google Cloud Marketplace listings, enterprise field sales with HIPAA BAA, BYOK/HSM, FedRAMP path, and dedicated SE/CSM support. The company is ISO 27001 certified, with SOC 2 Type II certification in progress per company materials.

Name

Spectral Core Ltd

Legal name

Spectral Core d.o.o.

Website

https://spectralcore.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Croatian-based independent software vendor building database migration, translation, and security tools supporting 50+ database engines. Serves 7,000+ teams across 100+ countries including 20% of Fortune 100 companies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Database Migration Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Database/Application Data Layer Modernization (DB migration, ORM, caching) (BPAEAFAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Data Platforms & Analytics Migration (BPAEACAI), Database Tools & Ecosystem (Replication, Backup/Recovery, HA/DR, Monitoring) (HDAEAAAO)

Keywords

• Database migration tools
• SQL code translation
• Database security proxy
• Change data capture
• Legacy database modernization

Headquarters

HQ city

Dublin

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses and Subscriptions: Core revenue from software licenses and subscriptions for database migration tools (Full Convert, Omni Loader, SQL Tran) and security products (Safe Boundary). Products offered in tiered plans from free to enterprise with feature differentiation.
2. Managed Services: Pre-migration assessment, parity testing, cutover, and 24/7 post-migration support. Outcome-based professional services where engineers work with customers through all migration stages.
3. Microsoft Fabric Migration Plans: Fabric Migration Standard at $5,000/month (up to 5TB, 1B records), Premium at $10,000/month (up to 20TB, 10B records), and Enterprise (unlimited, CDC streaming, custom training).
4. Safe Boundary Security Proxy: Database security proxy with tiered pricing: Free (1 DB, 25k queries), Startup (unlimited DBs, 250k queries/DB), Pro (2M queries/DB, VPC), Business (10M queries/DB, HIPAA BAA), Enterprise (custom).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Spectral Core builds and sells database migration, SQL code translation, and database security software. Its flagship products — Full Convert (data migration), Omni Loader (high-performance data migration with CDC), SQL Tran (SQL dialect translation), and Safe Boundary (AI-driven database security proxy) — together with a Migration Suite bundle and Managed Services deliver zero-downtime database modernization for enterprise and government customers. The company supports 50+ database engines natively, from legacy systems dating to 1998 through modern cloud warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric.

Product overview

Spectral Core Ltd builds a suite of database migration, translation, and security tools. The product portfolio centers on two flagship products — Full Convert (data migration, since 2004) and Omni Loader (high-performance data migration with CDC, 100TB+ support) — combined with SQL Tran (semantic SQL code translation between dialects) and Safe Boundary (AI-powered database security proxy). The Migration Suite bundles Omni Loader, SQL Tran, and Managed Services for end-to-end zero-downtime migrations. Fabric Migration is a separate native Microsoft Fabric workload combining SQL Tran and Omni Loader for migrations to Fabric Warehouse and Lakehouse. The company supports 50+ database engines natively and has been in production since 2004, serving 7,000+ teams across 100+ countries including 20% of Fortune 100 companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Full Convert: Database migration tool that has been running in production since 2004
• Omni Loader
• SQL Tran
• Safe Boundary
• Fabric Migration

Products and services

• Full Convert Database migration tool for moving data between 50+ database engines including legacy systems. Long-running flagship product since 2004.
• Omni Loader High-performance, massively parallel in-memory migration engine that moves 100TB+ datasets and 10-billion-row tables across 30+ database engines without taking the source offline, with Change Data Capture for zero-downtime cutover.
• SQL Tran SQL code translation engine that translates millions of lines of stored procedures, views, and SQL between dialects with full semantic awareness and automated correctness and performance testing.
• Safe Boundary Transparent database security proxy that intercepts every SQL query from engineers, applications, AI agents, and contractors, with instant blocking, deep SQL rewriting, AI-driven PII/PHI masking, proxy-layer row-level security, and query analytics.
• Fabric Migration Native Microsoft Fabric workload that combines SQL Tran and Omni Loader for unified data and code migrations to Microsoft Fabric Warehouse and Lakehouse, with Standard, Premium, and Enterprise pricing tiers.
• Migration Suite Bundled offering combining Omni Loader (data migration), SQL Tran (SQL code translation), and Managed Services for end-to-end zero-downtime database migrations.
• Managed Services Outcome-based managed migration services including pre-migration assessment, parity testing, cutover, and 24/7 post-migration support, delivered by Spectral Core engineers working alongside customer teams.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20% of Fortune 100 companies use Spectral Core software
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability7 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• MicrosoftflagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSpectral Core is a Microsoft Partner listed in Microsoft partner ecosystems with co-marketing channels and distribution through Microsoft AppSource and Fabric workload hub. Products available as native Microsoft Fabric workloads. Microsoft Training programs available for SQL Tran and Omni Loader.
• GooglecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorListed in Google Cloud Marketplace for enterprise procurement validation and distribution. Safe Boundary compatible with Google Cloud SQL and Google AlloyDB.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationProducts integrate with AWS RDS, Amazon Redshift, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Recommended compute-optimized instance types (C7a) for high-performance migrations. Azure F-series and GCP C2 also recommended.
• AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationProducts integrate with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Storage. V-ORDER optimization for Fabric Lakehouse. Recommended compute-optimized instances (F-series).

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS): AWS's native, broadly adopted migration service bundled into the AWS ecosystem. While it competes with Spectral Core for the same enterprise migration workload, it lacks Spectral Core's deep legacy engine coverage and SQL code translation capabilities, instead relying on schema conversion tooling.
• Azure Database Migration Service: Microsoft's bundled migration service tightly integrated with Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric. Directly competes with Spectral Core's Omni Loader and Fabric Migration products, particularly given the Microsoft AppSource distribution channel Spectral Core also leverages.
• Google Database Migration Service: Google Cloud's bundled migration service for heterogeneous database migrations, including AlloyDB and BigQuery targets. Competes with Spectral Core's Omni Loader for Google Cloud workloads, but lacks Spectral Core's depth in legacy and on-premises source systems.
• Fivetran: Automated data movement platform for ELT workloads into cloud warehouses. While focused on ongoing replication rather than one-time migrations, Fivetran increasingly competes for enterprise data platform budgets that historically included migration projects like Spectral Core's Omni Loader.
• Informatica: Enterprise data integration and migration suite serving Fortune 500 customers with deep legacy and cloud database connectivity. Competes with Spectral Core in large enterprise database modernization programs, with broader portfolio but typically higher cost and longer implementation timelines.

Direct peers

• Striim: Enterprise real-time data integration and CDC platform supporting migrations to cloud databases including Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Azure. Closely comparable to Spectral Core's Omni Loader with CDC, but typically competes in higher-throughput streaming use cases rather than legacy dialect translation.
• Ispirer: Specialized database and application migration vendor focused on legacy-to-modern transformations including Oracle-to-PostgreSQL and SQL Server-to-cloud. Direct competitor to Spectral Core's SQL Tran and Omni Loader for customers needing deep legacy dialect translation.

Emerging players

• Tonic.ai: Data masking and de-identification platform addressing the database security and compliance space that Safe Boundary also targets. While focused on synthetic data and test data management rather than proxy-layer query enforcement, it represents a competitor for the same data security budgets.
• Cyera: AI-powered data security posture management platform that addresses data discovery, classification, and access governance across cloud databases. Competes with Safe Boundary's automated PII/PHI detection and policy enforcement capabilities, but with substantially more venture funding.
• Airbyte: Open-source data integration platform with extensive connector coverage for moving data into cloud warehouses. While primarily an ELT/replication tool rather than a one-time migration vendor, Airbyte's connector breadth increasingly overlaps with the database engine coverage that defines Omni Loader.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/SpectralCoreHub
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/spectral-core

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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