Our Mission & Architectural Philosophy

Databases Should
Explain Themselves.

We are building Kolmos to solve the fundamental inefficiency in big data infrastructure: storing raw redundant bytes instead of intelligent data logic.

Why We Founded Kolmos

Modern enterprises pay millions of dollars storing petabytes of data on Amazon S3 and cloud warehouses. Yet up to 80% of those bytes are mathematically predictable derivations of other columns.

Kolmos was created by database systems engineers to prove that by optimizing data representation, we can achieve up to 3× compression gains while dramatically accelerating analytical queries.

Our Core Guarantees

100% Bit-Exact Restore: Zero loss of floating-point precision or string data.

Proprietary Enterprise Engine: High-performance, memory-safe architecture with trade-secret structural optimization.

Zero-Copy Apache Arrow: Seamless interoperability with Python, Polars, and DuckDB without data copying.

Future Vision

Engineering Phase Roadmap

Our multi-year technical roadmap for Kolmos engine development.

Phase 01Completed ✓

Explanation Ladder & CAS

Built KSF1 binary format, Rung 0/1/2 explanation ladder, FastCDC content-addressed store, and blake3 cryptographic integrity verification.

Phase 02Completed ✓

Multi-Source Ingest & Postgres Wire

Integrated Apache DataFusion 54.1 SQL engine, Postgres/MySQL/Mongo source connectors, and pgwire protocol server.

Phase 03Production Ready ⚡

WASM Covenant & R2 Cloud

Sandboxed wasmtime decoder covenants, Workload compiler, Actuarial synopsis store, and Cloudflare R2 object storage integration.

Phase 04In Progress 🚀

Full 3-Wire Drop-In Database

Fast WAL write-buffer, row-level DML mutations, MySQL & MongoDB native wire listeners, and global cloud provisioning.

Databases Should Explain Themselves.