About GizmoData

We build GizmoSQL.

A blazing-fast SQL server on DuckDB and Apache Arrow Flight SQL. Query terabytes in seconds, self-hosted in your own cloud or fully managed by us, at up to 90% less than Snowflake or Databricks.

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What we build

Warehouse-grade analytics, minus the warehouse-grade invoice.

GizmoSQL runs the same SQL your dashboards and pipelines already speak, on open standards you control. Run a full TPC-H 1 TB benchmark in about 80 seconds for about seventeen cents. Keep your data and your keys inside your own infrastructure, or let us operate it for you.

90%

lower cost vs. traditional platforms

<2 min

1 TB TPC-H run, for ~$0.17

Top 3

on ClickBench, single-node hot run →

Agent-ready

one shared SQL server, many concurrent AI agents

GizmoSQL· open-source coreGizmoSQL Enterprise· auth, audit, controlsGizmoData Cloud· fully managedGizmoEdge· distributed, edge to 1,000 nodes

The founder

Oracle DBA of the Year, North America (2016)

U.S. Marine Corps veteran

U.S. Patent #11354696

25 years in enterprise data

Founder & Principal Engineer

Philip Moore

GizmoSQL isn’t a weekend experiment. It’s built by an engineer who has spent 25 years inside the data systems of Procter & Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Kroger, Macy’s, Dunnhumby, 84.51°, and Voltron Data.

Philip helped pioneer solutions to the count-distinct problem by working directly with Oracle, Snowflake, and DuckDB to add native HyperLogLog and Bitmap-Or count-distinct support to their engines.

The engineer who extended DuckDB’s own internals now builds the server that makes it enterprise-ready.

— Philippians 4:13

Strategic advisors

Operators who have run enterprise data at scale, helping us build for the people who live with these systems every day.

Chris Wones, Strategic Advisor at GizmoData

34 years of enterprise data and engineering experience

Oracle 2014 Data Warehouse & Big Data Leader of the Year — Americas

Former engineering executive

Ironman triathlon finisher

Strategic Advisor

Chris Wones

Chris has spent his career turning enterprise data and engineering into measurable business value. Over 34 years he has led data and technology initiatives at James River, Retek, dunnhumby, and Kroger/84.51°, helping organizations rethink how they collect, manage, and use data to drive better decisions and outcomes.

He advises GizmoData on enterprise data strategy and on bringing GizmoSQL and GizmoData Cloud to the organizations whose problems he has spent three decades solving from the inside.