What DATABASE FRONTIERS CIC does

Database Frontiers CIC is a Community Interest Company registered in Scotland (company number SC878513) with its registered office at 50 Lochend Road North, Musselburgh, East Lothian. Its stated mission is to promote database culture and innovation and to connect database professionals and businesses. The company is led by two directors, Federico Razzoli and Lukas Vileikis, both published database authors and practitioners whose separate ventures (Vettabase, a database consulting and training firm; Logoutify, a data breach search engine) also serve as named organizers of the event.

The company's sole operating product is the Database Frontiers Summit, a single annual conference targeting database administrators, engineers, and architects working across relational and NoSQL systems such as MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra. The next Summit is scheduled for May 2027 in Scotland, with the company website (built on WordPress and hosted at dbfrontiers.net) currently showing no blog entries and registration handled via a Google Form. There are no additional product lines, no software offering, no proprietary technology platform, and no app or API surface; the technology footprint is limited to a standard WordPress site plus a Google Forms registration flow.

Revenue mechanics rely on conference registration fees, with no disclosed pricing, no enterprise contracts, and no disclosed revenue figures. Distribution is primarily organic through the website, blog, social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X), and word-of-mouth within the database professional community, supplemented by an open call for speakers. The associated for-profit entities (Vettabase and Logoutify) are separate companies rather than subsidiaries, and no external investors, parent company, or funding rounds are associated with the CIC.

Name

DATABASE FRONTIERS CIC

Legal name

Database Frontiers CIC

Website

https://dbfrontiers.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2026

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Database Frontiers CIC is a Scottish Community Interest Company organizing the Database Frontiers Summit, a single conference for database administrators, engineers, and architects working with MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra, with the next event scheduled for May 2027.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Musselburgh

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Conference and Event Revenue: Revenue generated through conference registration fees for the Database Frontiers Summit and related database professional events.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Database Frontiers CIC is a Community Interest Company that organizes the Database Frontiers Summit, a premier conference for database professionals. The company promotes database culture and innovation, and connects professionals and businesses in the world of databases. Its inaugural summit is scheduled for Scotland in May 2027, with registration handled via Google Forms on the official website.

Product overview

Database Frontiers CIC operates as a Community Interest Company that organizes the Database Frontiers Conference—a single, unified conference product for database professionals. The company also supports a blog for database-related content. The organizers include Vettabase (database consulting and training) and Logoutify (data breach search engine), though these are the organizing entities rather than product offerings of Database Frontiers CIC itself.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Database Frontiers Summit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• VettabasecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Vettabase is a database training company founded in 2020 by Federico Razzoli, who is also a director of Database Frontiers CIC. Vettabase serves complex MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra setups. As an organizer, Vettabase provides database expertise and training capabilities to support the Database Frontiers conference mission of promoting database culture and innovation.
• Logoutify (former BreachDirectory)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLogoutify is a data breach search engine that allows users to check if their identity is at risk of being stolen. It serves individuals, companies, law enforcement, and other institutions worldwide. Logoutify is listed as an organizer/partner for Database Frontiers, suggesting alignment around database security and data protection topics.

Scale indicators1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Red Hat (Red Hat Summit): Red Hat Summit is a broad open-source enterprise conference that includes database, middleware and cloud infrastructure content. It is comparable as a broader incumbent event that attracts overlapping database-administration and infrastructure audiences.
• Linux Foundation (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon): The Linux Foundation runs KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, a much larger conference series that includes significant database, data and infrastructure tracks. It is comparable as a broader incumbent that absorbs database-topic programming and sponsor budgets.
• AWS re:Invent: AWS re:Invent is AWS's flagship annual conference featuring extensive database, analytics and AI tracks. It is comparable as a broader incumbent whose scale and sponsorship pull compete for the same database-practitioner attendee time.
• O'Reilly (OSCON / Strata): O'Reilly has historically run OSCON and the Strata Data Conference, community-driven events for open-source and data professionals. It is comparable as an incumbent conference operator whose target audiences overlap with Database Frontiers' database and open-source community.
• Oracle (Oracle CloudWorld / Oracle DB events): Oracle runs CloudWorld and dedicated Oracle Database community events. It is comparable as a large incumbent that also runs database-practitioner conferences and competes for sponsor share.

Direct peers

• Percona: Percona runs Percona Live, the largest established conference series dedicated to MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB practitioners. It is the closest direct competitor to Database Frontiers because both target open-source database professionals with a flagship annual event and speaker-led programming.
• DataStax: DataStax organizes Cassandra- and NoSQL-focused community events and training. It is comparable because Cassandra is one of the four database technologies explicitly highlighted in Database Frontiers' customer segment.
• Citus (Microsoft): Citus runs Citus Con, a free online and in-person event for the Postgres community. It is comparable because it is a vendor/community database event aimed at the same PostgreSQL professional audience as the Database Frontiers Summit.
• MariaDB Foundation: The MariaDB Foundation convenes MariaDB contributors and users around the open-source MariaDB database. It is comparable because MariaDB is one of Database Frontiers' named focus technologies, and the Foundation runs community events of a similar shape.
• PostgresConf: PostgresConf organizes community conferences for PostgreSQL users and contributors in the US and abroad. It is comparable because it is a community-driven annual conference targeting the same PostgreSQL practitioner segment that Database Frontiers explicitly lists.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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