TrillaBit Leverages ClickHouse for Enhanced Analytics and Reporting
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Equipment & Machinery
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Picking, Sorting & Positioning
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
TrillaBit Quick Intelligence is a dynamic SaaS platform for reporting and business intelligence. It is an end-to-end, enterprise-grade platform that handles multi-tenancy and security, while allowing for dynamic data exploration on big data. It can integrate with ClickHouse wherever it is deployed. TrillaBit is a search-driven analytics platform, capable of handling data from various sources and providing flexibility in different scenarios. It aims to provide a cost-effective solution to the BI Assembly line problem, allowing users to ask questions in a search bar and get immediate visual answers. TrillaBit scales to IoT and network-level traffic volumes of data, easily handling trillions of rows while providing real-time analytics.
The Challenge
TrillaBit, a dynamic SaaS platform for reporting and business intelligence, initially used Apache Solr as its data backend. However, they soon encountered several challenges. Solr, being a key-value store, was more suited to search than high-volume non-linear aggregation or data compression for performance. Its query language wasn’t as mature as SQL and it didn’t handle joins effectively. When implementing real company data from various sources, TrillaBit found that more flexibility was required in different scenarios. They needed a solution that could be managed at a low cost and could be implemented within their environment for hands-on experience and understanding. However, popular contenders like Snowflake were too expensive and didn’t allow for full on-prem implementation.
The Solution
TrillaBit turned to ClickHouse, an open-source column-oriented database management system that allows generating analytical data reports in real time. ClickHouse offered fast performance and low cost, making it an excellent alternative. Setting up ClickHouse on-premise/self-managed (AWS) allowed TrillaBit to gain fast, hands-on experience to understand how it fit into their environment. ClickHouse's integration engines made data ingestion easier, with table engine features that allowed for direct connections to other relational stores like MySQL or Postgres. TrillaBit also utilized ClickHouse's data management engines, primarily the ReplacingMergeTree, to remove duplicates based on a sort key. For client integrations where the movement of data was required, TrillaBit utilized Airbyte. As TrillaBit grew, they moved to ClickHouse Cloud, offloading the cluster management to the cloud to focus on their product.
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