Terark is a fast storage engine that allows direct search on highly compressed data.
Terark is a new storage engine for database and data systems. The company's technology allows direct search on highly compressed data, with faster performance and with more storage savings, getting larger scalability with lower cost for big data applications. It is compatible with MySQL, MongoDB, and RocksDB, making random read, faster. Alibaba and xiaomi are the paying customers, and it is a Y Combinator company.
Terark was founded on 2015 and is based in Beijing, China.