CedarDB began as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, where its team built the Umbra database research project before commercializing the technology. The company sells one product under its own name, a relational database engine built from scratch to optimize for today's hardware and workloads and exposed through the PostgreSQL wire protocol, SQL grammar, and system catalog, offered as a free self-hosted Community Edition, a licensed Enterprise Edition, and the fully managed CedarDB Cloud service.
Its focus is the PostgreSQL-compatible database market, where it differentiates on mechanism: a single engine serves transactions and real-time analytics against one copy of live data, displacing the alternatives that pair PostgreSQL with a separate analytics system, an ETL pipeline, or a query-engine extension. The customers it targets are teams already running PostgreSQL whose dashboards, reports, or AI agents need answers from operational data.
