Yellowbrick Data
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Database technology, Data warehousing |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Founder | Neil Carson, Jim Dawson, Mark Brinicombe |
| Headquarters | Mountain View , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse, Yellowbrick Cloud DR |
| Website | yellowbrick |
Yellowbrick Data is an American enterprise specializing in database technology, offering massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse and SQL analytics solutions. Its corporate headquarters are located in Mountain View, California.
History
Established in 2014 by Neil Carson, Jim Dawson, and Mark Brinicombe, Yellowbrick introduced its premier product, the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, which is a data warehouse system built on flash storage. The original solution integrated analytic blades with NVMe flash memory and CPUs interconnected through an internal network. It incorporates a custom execution engine designed for primary columnar storage, alongside native compression and erasure coding to ensure data durability. Supporting ANSI SQL and ACID compliance via a PostgreSQL-based interface, it maintains compatibility with any database driver or external connector. The all-flash design provides enhanced performance and consistent reliability compared to traditional data warehousing systems.
In 2019, Yellowbrick broadened its product range by launching two new services: the Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Yellowbrick Cloud DR. The Cloud Data Warehouse operates on dedicated hardware accessible to applications hosted on AWS, Azure, and GCP through private network connections, delivering performance and dependability equivalent to the on-premises solution. Meanwhile, Cloud DR facilitates replication of on-premises datasets either to the cloud or across multiple cloud regions.
By 2022, Yellowbrick released a fully cloud-native iteration of its Data Warehouse platform built on Kubernetes, available across all leading public cloud providers including AWS Marketplace, Azure, and GCP. This version preserves fundamental architectural elements such as MPP, columnar storage, NVMe flash technology, PostgreSQL compatibility, and SQL support. The cloud-native platform utilizes cloud object storage services like AWS S3 for persistent data retention and enables elasticity with separation of compute and storage resources. Distinctively, Yellowbrick deploys entirely within the customer’s cloud environment without sharing data or system metadata with either the cloud provider or the vendor.