Best Database Technology Companies in Germany
The 44 best Database Technology companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ArangoDB.
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Ranked: Best Database Technology companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ArangoDB Provider of multi model NoSQL database solutions | $59M | 58 mo ago | Series B | Claudius Weinberger Co-Founder | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36 | — | — |
| 2 | Qdrant Developer of vector search engine for AI retrieval and similarity matching 67AI top 20%Funding top 25%Growth top 35%Talent top 38% All 9 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 25% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% Techtop 46% Newsbottom 42% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 39% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $37.8M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 4 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $38M | 5 mo ago | Series B | Andrey Vasnetsov Co-Founder & CTO | 2020 | HugoAmazon Web ServicesNetlify+22 | — | 1 launch |
| 3 | Swarm64 Scalable data architecture | $21M | 82 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Timecho Cloud based platform offering database management solutions | $10M | 49 mo ago | Series A | Xiangdong Huang Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 5 | BigChainDB Blockchain databases for secure data storage and control | $5M | 118 mo ago | Series A | Masha Mcconaghy Founder at large / CMO / Strategic Partnerships | 2014 | Amazon Web ServicesTypekitSelect2+6 | — | — |
| 6 | Serenedb Developer of a real-time search analytics database with Postgres compatibility 27Talent top 28%Funding top 46%Global bottom 48%Tech bottom 43% All 5 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 46% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 43% Marketbottom 25% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $2.1M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $2M | 8 mo ago | Seed | Valerii Mironov Co-Founder | 2025 | DocusaurusApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+10 | — | — |
| 7 | SuperDuperDB Open source based vector database for AI app development | $2M | 32 mo ago | Seed | Timo H Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Randsman Data management for geospatial data | $2M | 67 mo ago | Funding Raised | Peter Baumann Founder & Ceo | 2003 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Fastgen Provider of a platform for building backends, workflows, and APIs | $125K | 38 mo ago | Acquired | Mike Mahlkow Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Database Technology companies in Germany
#1
Series B · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2020 · 23 employees$37.8Mraised▾
Developer of vector search engine for AI retrieval and similarity matching. The engine supports hybrid dense and sparse retrieval with metadata filtering and real-time updates. It offers solutions for recommendation systems, semantic search, data analysis, and AI agents. The engine is designed for speed, accuracy, and scalability, suitable for various deployment models.
- Mar 2026Series B$50M
- Jan 2024Series A$28M
- Apr 2023Seed$7.5M
- Jan 2022Seed$2.3M
#2
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2025$2.1Mraised▾
Developer of a real-time search analytics database with Postgres compatibility. The system unifies search and analytics through a columnar engine, enabling real-time insights via full-text, vector, and hybrid search. It features optimized querying, SQL execution with joins and unions, and scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure with backup and recovery. The system uses an optimizer that plans queries for speed and efficiency.
- Dec 2025Seed$2.1M
#3
Series B · Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2014 · 25 employees$58.6Mraised▾
A distributed free and open source database with a multi data model for documents, graphs, and key values. Arango enables developers to build high performance applications on top of ArangoDB using a convenient SQL like query language named AQL. Arango contributes to the project by providing architects, developers, etc. For its enterprise users, ArangoDB GmbH offers subscriptions, support as part of development, training and consulting.
- Oct 2021Series B$27.8M
- Mar 2019Series A$10M
- Dec 2017Series A$11.6M
- Jun 2017Series A$4.8M
#4
Series A · Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2016$10Mraised▾
Cloud based platform offering database management solutions. It offers a time series database management system that integrates the collection, storage, management, and analysis of IoT time series data. It also provides analytical file formats and IoT data models. Industries using the solutions are the internet of vehicle enterprise, power industry, public sector, financial enterprises, etc.
- Jun 2022Series A$10M
#5
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2013 · 29 employees$21.2Mraised▾
Swarm64 is a processor and processing system startup based in Oslo and Berlin. It develops next-generation server architectures, cluster acceleration, and big data solutions. Swarm64’s Scalable Data Accelerator (SDA) and its database extensions build on the strengths of open source database systems and enhance them with the massively parallel processor architecture.
- Oct 2019Series B—
- Jan 2018Series B$12.5M
- Sep 2015Series A$7.9M
- Aug 2013Seed$749.1K
#6
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2023 · 2 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Open source based vector database for AI app development. It provides python framework that integrates AI and vector search within the databases, offering real-time inference, model training, and AI chatbot capabilities. The platform converts the existing database into vector database in real time.
- Dec 2023Seed$1.8M
- Nov 2023Seed—
#7
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014 · 23 employees$5.4Mraised▾
BigchainDB provides blockchain databases for secure data storage and control. It provides a decentralized distributed database to hold transactions, records, and digital assets. It allows developers and enterprises to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms, and applications with a blockchain database, supporting a wide range of industries and use cases. The features of the product include native support of multi assets, data immutability, customizable networks, etc.
- Sep 2016Series A$3.4M
- 2015Seed$2M
#8
Funding Raised · Bremen, Bremen · founded 2003 · 5 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Randsman offers a data management platform for managing geospatial data. The product uses an open source array database Rasdaman and uses SQL-embedded array query language. The product integrates with R, python, Java, C++, OpenLayers, Leaflet, NASA WorldWind, GIS, MapServer, GeoServer, GDAL, OPeNDAP, Pyxis, and ESRI ArcGIS among others.
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$698.8K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$246.5K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$61.7K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$105K
#9
Acquired · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2023 · 7 employees$125Kraised▾
Provider of a platform for building backends, workflows, and APIs. The platform offers tools for API creation, debugging, logging, and database management. It allows users to create REST endpoints, set up authentication, and define validation rules. The platform also supports custom logic implementation using Node.js and Python, along with environment variable management.
- 2023Seed—
- 2023Seed$500K
#10
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2012 · 148 employees—raised▾
Developer of open source monitoring system and time series database. It provides tools to monitor applications, systems, and services. The system collects, stores, and queries metrics for alerting and dashboard visualizations. It uses a query language to correlate and transform time series data. The system integrates with cloud and container managers to monitor services.
- Jun 2024Seed—
#11
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2020 · 3 employees—raised▾
Provider of open source platform for machine learning development environments. It facilitates SSH access to GPU machines across various cloud providers. The platform offers tools accessible through a command-line interface and a dashboard. It supports integration with existing development tools and version control systems.
- 2021Seed—
#12
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2016 · 16 employees—raised▾
Trevor allows users to access databases on the fly. Users can build queries similar to Excel and SQL, and view live streamed results into Google Sheets, download these results and share them with teammates in a browser. The platform performs a drill down to find connected data by referring to the relationship schema of the database. The service is available for a pricing on a monthly basis depending upon the numebr of data sources. Their customers include Honeypot, Carwow, Lexoo, Wave, Ignite, and Trail.
- Jan 2017Seed—
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