MinusOneDB emerged from a simple yet profound idea inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince: “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Today the technical, time, and financial barriers to developing and scaling innovative projects are higher than ever. They limit who can innovate, what data-intensive products teams can afford to build, and which of those products are economically viable. We believe that has to change.
Modern data infrastructure is needlessly complex. Organizations face compounding challenges that slow innovation and drain budgets.
Current data solutions require teams to stitch together sprawling toolchains of databases, warehouses, ETL pipelines, and analytics engines. Each layer adds cost, latency, and operational risk.
Months of data engineering work stand between a product idea and a working prototype. Teams spend more time wrangling infrastructure than building the features their users need.
Traditional architectures buckle under growing data volumes. Scaling means re-platforming, spiraling cloud bills, and performance compromises that limit what products can do.
Every additional component in a data stack introduces new attack surfaces and failure modes. Complexity is the enemy of both security and uptime.
MinusOneDB replaces the entire traditional data stack with a single, unified platform. By moving storage and compute back together and making distributed search foundational rather than bolted-on, we deliver up to 1000x better query price-performance on tested workloads, sub-second response times for most query patterns, and up to 80% reduction in development time (as demonstrated with Qonsent). One system. One API. Radically simpler.
The principles that guide everything we build.
We exist to eliminate the technical, financial, and time barriers that prevent teams from building the data-intensive products the world needs.
We envision a world where data infrastructure is so simple, fast, and affordable that it becomes invisible -- freeing every team to focus on what they build, not how they store and query it.
Perfection through removal. Every feature, every abstraction must earn its place. We ship less so our customers can build more.
A team with decades of experience building transformative data solutions at the world's leading companies.
William Wechtenhiser is a technical innovator and entrepreneur. Throughout his career he has been responsible for developing transformative data solutions at leading companies including Adobe, Goldman Sachs, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research and WarnerMedia/AT&T.
Israel Mirsky is a strategic leader and marketer with a history of helping enterprises meet rapid change through innovation. Previous roles include leading global technology at OMD and performance and social products at Annalect, working with Intel, Disney, SCJ, SAP, and many others.
