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Right, I agree with you. I was just wondering what kind of companies (except from financial sector) would be willing to spend hundreds of thousands to get their latency from hundreds of ms to dozens of ms. I'm saying that because if you have a very well-tuned Redshift cluster, you can easily get dozens of ms for your queries, spending thousands of dollars, not hundreds of thousands.
You might be surprised. Telcos need to troubleshoot network problems in real time, automakers and insurance companies need to track cars in real-time, oil companies need to interactively query and visualize geological data, and the infosec industry needs real-time packet analysis. We have customers almost in every vertical, all united by their need for real-time analytics. Some want to use MapD us visualization, othe…
I'm still curious about how much it would cost for scenario where you have 1 billion user and 200 billion events for a year of data and keep adding 10 billion monthly (a very real DMP or Telco scenario) and you have to make a query like this one below on top of all this data (200 billion records). I'm wondering how many MapD servers/infrastructure I would need to have in order to get results under 100-ms.
Count UNIQUE Users that from "San Francisco" OR "New York" AND accessed the pages "/sports" OR "/news" more than 3 times in the past 12 months.