Led by former LinkedIn and Uber hands, Mountain View, California-based Star Tree looks to drive wider use of real-time analytical applications based around the Apache Pinot OLAP engine. This kind of technology has many uses in a world where great volumes of data arrive at ultrahigh velocity.
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If “OLAP” had marketing magic, that was a long time ago. OLAP was an early attempt to go beyond relational database and data warehouse limitations, but Apache Pinot today is probably better described in today’s parlance as a column-oriented data store, and its competition can come from any of the many databases to arise in recent years. Apache Pinot is designed to handle fast ingestion of data, and fast joins on users’ SQL queries. Since the StarTree focus is on cloud computing — its found in the three big cloud providers’ marketplaces – it can and also has been called a Database As A Service (DBaaS). [Read more…] about Observations: Need real-time analytics? There’s a StarTree Cloud for that
