Tantor Labs

Tantor Labs Russian is the developer DBMS of Tantor and the management and monitoring platform. PostgreSQL DBMS The main activities of the company are advisory activities and work in the field of computer technology, processing, data provision of accommodation services information and related activities, scientific research and development in the field of natural and technical sciences (data for October 2022).

History

2022

Disclosure of the amount of the transaction for the sale of Tantor Labs to Astra Group

Astra Group reports that "the group acquired a 75% stake in Tantor Laboratories LLC from third parties for a monetary reward of 100 million rubles."

Entry into Astra Group of Companies

As it became known to TAdviser, in October 2022, Tantor Labs, a developer of the Astra Linux operating system, founded in 2021, a developer of the Tantor DBMS and the PostgreSQL DBMS management and monitoring platform, entered the circuit of Astra Group.

The Tantor Labs team, according to Astra Group, consists of 15 people and has extensive experience in the global service market in the field of PostgreSQL, development and infrastructure management, certification of business processes and security according to ISO standards, as well as the practical use of ITIL and ITSM methodologies.

The founders of Tantor Labs are PostgreSQL's regional representative in Israel , Mikhail Goldberg , and PostgreSQL expert Vadim Yatsenko, who is the company's CEO. As a result of the transaction, Astra Group received 75%, the founders - 25%.

Tantor is the name of an elephant from the story about Tarzan, explained TAdviser Vadim Yatsenko. The elephant, we recall, is a symbol of the PostgreSQL community, which has been developing the open source DBMS of the same name since 1986.

Tantor Labs products - Tantor DBMS and a comprehensive solution for managing and monitoring PostgreSQL DBMS - are included in. register of Russian software Ministry of Digital Development

The key advantages of its software in Tantor Labs include low resource intensity and entry threshold, ease of installation and a convenient interface.

Joining Tantor Labs to Astra Group of Companies will significantly increase cooperation in terms of joint development and increase the level of security of solutions, the deal participants say. Information security mechanisms using standard PostgreSQL tools will be strengthened by integration with patented information protection tools built into Astra Linux.

Joining Tantor Labs to Astra Group will significantly increase cooperation in terms of joint development and increase the level of security of solutions, the deal participants say

Joining Astra Group of Companies is a strategically important step for our company. Many customers use Astra Linux and other vendor products to form the IT landscape, and this indicates their high confidence in this developer, "says Vadim Yatsenko

Working with Tantor Labs will significantly strengthen our software stack in terms of reliable and secure storage and processing of data, as well as efficient work with various types and profiles of application loads, including mixed ones. The plans include the implementation of all the key features of PostgreSQL and additional ones. This will be deep integration with the Astra Linux server OS, as well as tools for backup, migration, automated installation, configuration and update of DBMS in heterogeneous environments, "adds Ilya Sivtsev, General Director of Astra Group of Companies

Ilya Sivtsev spoke in detail about the strategy of mergers and acquisitions of Astra Group of Companies in an interview with TAdviser.

Tantor Labs is not the first Russian developer of database management systems based on PostgreSQL code. In 2015, the Postgres Professional company was created. Its founders were leading developers (Major Contributor) PostgreSQL Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov and Fedor Sigaev living in Russia, as well as Ivan Panchenko and project investor Anton Sushkevich, founder and former general director of the integrator NVision Group.

At the end of 2021, Postgres Professional's revenue reached 1.3 billion rubles. Among the company's clients are the Federal Tax Service, Russian Railways, Sberbank, Rosselkhozbank, Gazpromneft and others.

We look at Postrgres Professional no longer as competitors, but as fellow partners with whom we will jointly develop the Postgres community in Russia. Moreover, we have a "Tantor Platform" product for managing and monitoring DBMS that can work with Postgres Pro. In this part, we complement each other, - says Vadim Yatsenko