Sqrrl

Sqrrl is a graph database management system (DBMS) . It uses secure, adatable NoSQL built from Apache Accumulo. Originally founded by former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA), Sqrrl focuses on cybersecurity. It emphasizes its offer of a threat hunting platform to clients.

• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sqrrl#section-overview
• https://db-engines.com/en/system/Neo4j%3BSphinx%3BSqrrl
• https://sqrrl.com/blog/

History

Sqrrl development began in 2011. As a company, it was founded by Ely Kahn and Oren J. Falkowitz who worked in cybersecurity before creating Sqrrl. Sqrrl was built on Apache Accumulo. It received funding from various venture capitalist firms from 2012 through 2015. In January of 2018, Sqrrl was acquired by Amazon Web Services.

• https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sqrrl#section-overview
• https://twitter.com/ElyKahn
• http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/08/new_database_startup_sqrrl_rai.html
• https://gigaom.com/2015/02/18/nsa-linked-sqrrl-eyes-cyber-security-and-lands-7m-in-funding/

Website

http://sqrrl.com/

Developer

Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

2012

Acquired By

Amazon

• https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/amazons-cloud-business-acquires-sqrrl-a-security-start-up-with-nsa-roots.html
• https://sqrrl.com/

Project Type

Commercial

Written in

Java

Supported languages

ActionScript, C, C#, C++, Cocoa, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk

Derived From

Accumulo

Operating Systems

Linux

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqrrl