As our friends and family know, we have danced the wonderful VC dance for a while now. As a matter of fact, we met the Sunstone and Conor teams for the first time over a year ago. During this year we've dated regularly -- and happily so -- but have still not quite been ready to make that final leap from dating to marriage.
Until now. As the interest around the NoSQL space and alternative databases has just exploded over the past 3-4 months it's been increasingly clear to us that we want to and need to accelerate. We fully believe that we're moving towards what Ben Scofield of Viget Labs describes as a "pluralistic approach to storing our data," i.e. an architecture where a single application typically works with multiple databases, each storing the datasets they're best for.
In a world where it's all about choosing the database paradigm that best fits your dataset instead of squeezing everything into the relational database, in that world we believe there's a huge opportunity for graph databases. With Sunstone and Conor on board, this investment will give us the means to pursue it.
