Built by people who got tired
of slow databases.

Three database engineers. Years of production incidents. One decision to build something better.

How Dreambase started

Dreambase was founded in 2022, in Boston, by three database engineers who had spent years fixing the same class of problem at different companies. The problem wasn't the databases themselves — Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB are genuinely excellent pieces of software. The problem was that they were dumb about their own performance.

Every organization they worked at had the same story: a query that worked fine in development that silently destroyed production under load. A schema change that broke three services nobody knew were downstream. A pipeline that was "fine" until it wasn't, and then it was a weekend incident.

The fixes were always manual. An engineer would dig through execution plans for hours, figure out what was wrong, write a migration, test it, deploy it. Weeks of work to solve a problem the database should have been able to flag automatically.

Dreambase is the layer between your application and your database that makes that manual work unnecessary. It's venture-backed, early-stage, and building in the open with a small team that cares deeply about the craft of data infrastructure.

Dreambase engineering office in Boston with engineers working at standing desks
2022
Year founded
18
Person team
Boston
Headquarters
Seed
Funding stage

What we believe about data

Three principles that shape every decision we make at Dreambase.

Data should explain itself.

Your database knows things your application doesn't. It knows which queries are slow, which indexes are dead weight, which schema changes broke a query plan. It just doesn't tell you. We're building the layer that makes databases communicative.

The stack you have is the stack we work with.

Migration projects fail. They take longer than scoped, they introduce regressions, and they burn out teams. Dreambase is designed to improve your data layer without changing what you've already built. Proxy-first, non-destructive, zero-schema-change.

Speed is a feature, not a setting.

Performance shouldn't be a thing you turn on after launch, or a tuning project scheduled between features. Fast queries should be the default. Dreambase treats query performance as a continuous, automatic concern — not a one-time fix.

We're building in the open.

Early access is open. Join the teams already using Dreambase to ship faster data infrastructure.

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