In my position as Editor of Gestalt IT and organizer of the Tech Field Day events, I talk to lots of companies. Speedb reminds me of some of the most successful startups in that they are attacking an acute industry need (RocksDB performance) with credible technical skills. Rather than developing yet another storage array, Speedb is solving a critical challenge felt across a massive number of customers. SpeeDB (the product) seems to work, and I suspect that Speedb (the company) might too.