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TileDB-Inc
TileDB
C++2018–2026
TileDB-Inc / TileDB

TileDB

The Universal Storage Engine

5Distinct people
26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

The Universal Storage Engine

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year26 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-02 17:38:10 UTC to 2026-01-16 00:17:08 UTC.

02462018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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TileDB, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA or REMOTE (US) | tiledb.io TileDB, Inc. leads the development of the open source TileDB array data management software. The company closed a $1M seed in May 2017 led by Intel Capital and Nexus Venture Partners (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171019005449/en), and is looking to raise a Series A round in the upcoming months. TileDB has been featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547749. TileDB GitHub repo: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB Array data volumes are increasing in genomics, earth science, imaging, and other sensing applications, and TileDB is meeting the challenge head-on. We are a small distributed team looking to aggressively adapt TileDB to better take advantage of distributed storage and compute backends in the hybrid local-and-cloud domain
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. We are primarily looking for someone to help us transition scientific data storage and analysis to the cloud. Anyone who has experience in the following areas is welcome to apply: - Cloud object storage and compute - Spark / Arrow integration - Scalable REST server / services and APIs - SaaS services around access control, data sharing, and encryption Additionally, we would be interested in a candidate with experience in one or more of the following areas: Scientific data storage / analysis, modern C++ (C++11 and later), parallel and/or distributed programming, compute or I/O performance optimization, genomic data formats / libraries (such as bam, vcf, htslib, bcftools, etc.), encryption / security. Our headquarters are located in Cambridge, MA. To cope efficiently with the different time zones and hiring processes, priority will be given to candidates that are located in the US, and are US citizens or permanent residents. Apply at https://tiledb.workable.com Contact us at careers@tiledb.io with questions.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
TileDB, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA or REMOTE (US) | tiledb.io TileDB, Inc. leads the development of the open source TileDB array data management software. The company closed a $1M seed in May 2017 led by Intel Capital and Nexus Venture Partners (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171019005449/en), and is looking to raise a Series A round in the upcoming months. TileDB has been featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547749 TileDB GitHub repo: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB We are a small distributed team looking to aggressively adapt TileDB to better take advantage of distributed storage and compute backends in the hybrid local-and-cloud domain. We are primarily looking for someone to build access control / security into our product, however anyone who has the experience in the following area
Read the rest
s is welcome to apply: - S3 object storage / AWS Batch / AWS Lambda - Azure blob storage / Azure Functions - Google cloud storage / Google Cloud Functions - Spark / Arrow integration - Scalable REST server / service and API - SaaS services around access control and encryption Additionally, experience in any of the following would be a plus: Scientific data storage / analysis, Modern C++ (C++11 and later), Parallel and/or distributed programming, Compute or I/O performance optimization, Scalable object storage, Java / Spark ecosystem, Encryption / secure systems. Our headquarters are located in Cambridge, MA. To cope efficiently with the different time zones and hiring processes, priority will be given to candidates that are located in the US, and are US citizens or permanent residents. Apply at https://tiledb.workable.com Contact us at careers@tiledb.io with questions.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
TileDB, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer | FULL-TIME | Cambridge, MA or REMOTE (US) | tiledb.io TileDB, Inc. leads the development of the open source TileDB array data management software. The company closed a $1M seed in May 2017 led by Intel Capital and Nexus Venture Partners (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171019005449/en), and is looking to raise a Series A round in the upcoming months. TileDB has been featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547749. TileDB GitHub repo: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB Array data volumes are increasing in genomics, earth science, imaging, and other sensing applications, and TileDB is meeting the challenge head-on. We are a small distributed team looking to aggressively adapt TileDB to better take advantage of distributed storage and compute backends in the hybrid local-and-
Read the rest
cloud domain. We are currently looking to expand our team with someone experienced in one of the following areas: - S3 object storage / AWS Batch / AWS Lambda - Azure blob storage / Azure Functions - Google Cloud Storage / Google Cloud Functions - Spark / Arrow integration - Scalable REST server / service and API - SaaS services around access control and encryption Additionally, experience in any of the following would be a plus: - Scientific data storage / analysis - Modern C++ (C++11 and later) - Parallel and/or distributed programming - Compute or I/O performance optimization - Scalable object storage - Java / Spark ecosystem - Encryption / secure systems Our headquarters are located in Cambridge, MA. To cope efficiently with the different time zones and hiring processes, priority will be given to candidates that are located in the US, and are US citizens or permanent residents. Apply at https://tiledb.workable.com Contact us at careers@tiledb.io with questions.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

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