Three things we're betting on.
Compiled, not interpreted
The next generation of data and AI systems needs runtimes that compile to native code on the hot path. Bytecode interpreters and remote sandboxes lose. We design the opposite.
Open, not walled
Source-available, with no managed-service-only walls. You can self-host, fork, audit, embed. We don't ship products we wouldn't run ourselves.
Engineered to ship
A small Rust shop with tight scope, real benchmarks, and code that runs in production. No demoware, no buzzword stack, no half-finished pivots.
Two products today. More coming.
ScramDB
Our database product. Adaptive HTAP, JIT-compiled SQL, PostgreSQL-compatible. Open source.
Visit scramdb.com for the architecture, benchmarks, and install guide.
Afterburner
Our JavaScript runtime for Rust. Capability-gated, embeddable, with the burn CLI. Open source.
Visit afterburner.sh for docs, examples, and the install one-liner.
Built on the right primitives
We don't reinvent fundamentals. We wire them together correctly. Compiled execution and capability-gated isolation, built on infrastructure that has been proven for decades.
Berlin. Rust. Since 2023.
We're a small team. Founded in Berlin in 2023. We write Rust because we care about what Rust gets right: zero-cost abstractions, no GC pauses, memory you can reason about. We ship the kind of systems we'd want to depend on.
Run it your way
Self-host, BYOC, or use our managed service when it ships. Same binaries, same behavior, your choice. Data stays where you put it.
What's next
Managed surfaces for both products. More runtimes for more host languages. Compiled execution wherever computation lives. That's the long bet.
Integrate seamlessly
Frequently Asked Questions
Both compile to native code, both are built by Psila.AI, and Afterburner powers user-defined functions inside ScramDB. They ship as independent products because they serve different needs: ScramDB replaces your database, Afterburner embeds into any host that needs safe, fast scripting.