# Wondering about Tile-db Clientele **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 16, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.tiledb.com/t/wondering-about-tile-db-clientele/79 "2019-05-16T19:04:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TileDbUser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@TileDbUser](https://forum.tiledb.com/u/TileDbUser)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.tiledb.com/t/wondering-about-tile-db-clientele/79/1 "2019-05-16T19:04:01Z")
I am looking into Tile-db to store our genomics data here at Illumina and so far it is looking good. Just that it being a new solution, we are a little conservative about if this project is going to continue to be well-maintained in the future as oppose to something like HDF5 which has existed for decades. I tried to search data about who (which organizations) are actively using it and how well funded this project is and I was not able to find a “Clients” list on your website. Is there any data like this that you guys can share on your website? If so, it would really be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![stavros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@stavros](https://forum.tiledb.com/u/stavros)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.tiledb.com/t/wondering-about-tile-db-clientele/79/2 "2019-05-20T20:40:16Z")
We are working with customers under NDAs, so we cannot disclose them at the moment (but we will soon). We also recently announced a [$4M seed funding](https://medium.com/tiledb/tiledb-raises-4-million-in-seed-funding-led-by-nexus-venture-partners-to-reshape-data-management-127cfa4ef9ac), and built a strong engineering team to develop/maintain our open-source TileDB storage engine, as well as a soon-to-be-announced product. We plan to stick around and continue to grow for a while :). We’d be very happy to jump on a phone call and learn more about your use case and the ways we can be helpful. ---
**Author:** ![ihnorton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.tiledb.com/ihnorton/32/23_2.png) [@ihnorton](https://forum.tiledb.com/u/ihnorton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.tiledb.com/t/wondering-about-tile-db-clientele/79/3 "2019-05-20T21:17:04Z")
@TileDbUser on the open source side that we can freely disclose, I wanted to also mention that the [Mars computation framework from Alibaba](https://medium.com/syncedreview/alibaba-open-sources-mars-to-complement-numpy-ea215ff1fa2f) has independently [integrated TileDB](https://github.com/mars-project/mars/pull/227) as a storage backend (and has provided some excellent feedback/bug reports to us since then). We have also worked with several widely-used projects to upstream support for TileDB as a storage format: - PDAL ([https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2363](https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/2363)) - GDAL ([https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/1402](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/1402)) - [Dask](https://dask.org/) ([https://github.com/dask/dask/pull/4679](https://github.com/dask/dask/pull/4679)) ---
**Author:** ![TileDbUser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@TileDbUser](https://forum.tiledb.com/u/TileDbUser)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.tiledb.com/t/wondering-about-tile-db-clientele/79/4 "2019-05-20T23:56:38Z")
@stavros Thank you so much for your info. We are currently in F& P phase with Tile-db and we would definitely like to engage our selves to see how we can integrate Tile-db better into our eco-system. Currently, one gripe that we have is that tile-db is does not have out of the box C# library. We are working with c++ and it seems to do the job with some work arounds. If it is not too bad, a C# library would definitely be a good add-on ---
**Author:** ![TileDbUser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@TileDbUser](https://forum.tiledb.com/u/TileDbUser)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.tiledb.com/t/wondering-about-tile-db-clientele/79/5 "2019-05-20T23:57:34Z")
@ihnorton Thank you. This is really encouraging. ---
**Author:** ![Bin\_Deng](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.tiledb.com/bin_deng/32/157_2.png) [@Bin\_Deng](https://forum.tiledb.com/u/Bin_Deng)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.tiledb.com/t/wondering-about-tile-db-clientele/79/6 "2021-08-16T13:48:24Z")
We just open sourced the pre-release for C# wrapper of TileDB. You can check it out at [GitHub - TileDB-Inc/TileDB-CSharp: CSharp API for TileDB](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-CSharp). If you have any questions about it, please let us know.