What do you get when you combine two of the most up-and-coming paradigms in data processing - streaming and graphs? A potential game-changer, and this is the bet first DARPA and now CrowdStrike) Falcon Fund) have taken on thatDot) and its open source framework Quine).
The CrowdStrike Falcon Fund is an investment vehicle managed by CrowdStrike, in partnership with Accel, that makes cross-stage private investments within cybersecurity and adjacent markets.
DARPA is also known to have an interest in cybersecurity, and this is what motivated the decision to fund the development of a framework recently released by thatDot as an open source project dubbed Quine).
Many solutions exist on the market both for streaming data processing) as well as for graph analytics), oftentimes working in tandem. However, thatDot Founder and CEO Ryan Wright claims that Quine's technology is unique, enabling it scale to orders of magnitude beyond what any other system today is capable of.
We caught up with Wright to discuss the key premises behind Quine and thatDot, as well as the practical aspects of using Quine and the next steps in its evolution.