Greater economic uncertainty means enterprises are looking to reduce their Snowflake costs more than ever. Traditional approaches to Snowflake cost control are far from an easy fix, however. Most common approaches have the undesirable side effect of strictly limiting the business’s usage or generating significant amounts of additional work for…

Airbnb is a world-famous community-based online marketplace for lodging. It provides a platform for hosts to share accommodations with travelers around the world. There are over 6M active listings available on the Airbnb platform today, 4M+ hosts provide listings on Airbnb, and over 1B+ Airbnb guest arrivals all-time (as of…

Data sizes are growing rapidly, and this has forced enterprises into re-designing their data architectures to keep up. Because of this, many companies are discovering that they, in fact, require several components to manage their data: a storage layer to store it, a governance layer to manage it, and a…

StarRocks, the high-performance real-time OLAP database, was designed to make data-intensive analytics fast and easy. When it comes to speed, it makes good on this promise by delivering query performance 5 to 10 times faster than other popular solutions. …

Previously, we examined the growing need for real-time analytics across a variety of common business use cases. We also identified a number of limitations found in popular analytics platforms that have made supporting (or even achieving) real-time analytics difficult. In this article, we’ll delve back into those challenges and explain…

Microsoft Excel is arguably the most indispensable piece of software in Microsoft’s Office Suite, and its extreme flexibility and ease-of-use have made it a workhorse for nearly every area of business analysis. …

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, data has become the lifeblood of modern enterprises. Real-time analytics has emerged as a critical component of data platforms across industries, with users seeking OLAP database solutions that can refresh their real-time dashboards, monitoring systems, and other applications in a matter of seconds while…

Analytics has been the center of attention when it comes to data platforms in nearly every industry. …

In late 2022, ClickHouse released its open-source performance benchmark project, ClickBench. This benchmarking tool quickly generated a lot of attention and discussion. Data warehouse vendors and data infrastructure engineers rushed to the site to check out who ranked as the ‘fastest’ analytical database. We applaud ClickHouse for not only providing…