April 12th, 2021

Command Alkon offers a SaaS application to digitize construction logistics, allowing suppliers, transportation providers and contractors on jobsites to analyze and collaborate on data in real time.

Kevin Leong

April 5th, 2021

We spoke with Sequoia’s head of engineering, Jake Quist, and VP of data science, Hem Wadhar, about their reasons for moving their internal analytics off Elasticsearch to Rockset.

Kevin Leong

March 31st, 2021

Ritual, a health-meets-technology company, personalized the cart checkout experience, email promotions and banners using Rockset. Learn how Ritual effectively monetized new product lines with real-time analytics.

Julie Mills

March 23rd, 2021

We recount our experience hunting down, diagnosing and fixing 502 and 504 errors to improve product quality and user experience.

Hieu Pham

March 15th, 2021

In part 3 of our Elasticsearch and Rockset comparison, we examine how well Elasticsearch and Rockset ingest and index real-time data.

Shawn Adams

March 12th, 2021

Rockset CEO Venkat Venkataramani and engineering leaders Nimrod Hoofien (Gusto) and Adam Wolff (Robinhood) share best practices for recruiting great engineers.

Julie Mills

March 5th, 2021

In this post, we discuss how you should think about space, time, storage and compute in the context of modern data analytics offerings like Snowflake and Rockset.

Shruti Bhat

February 25th, 2021

In part 2 of our Elasticsearch and Rockset comparison, we take a look at query flexibility and its impact on developer productivity.

Shawn Adams

February 18th, 2021

We evaluated Rockset on the Star Schema Benchmark and found up to 9.4x query runtime speedup compared to Druid. We discuss our benchmarking exercise, results and analysis in this blog post.

Kevin Leong

February 9th, 2021

We explore how indexing Amazon S3 data can enable low-latency, high-concurrency queries for real-time analytics.

Shawn Adams

January 27th, 2021

Mark Callaghan shares his thoughts on joining Rockset, where he will focus on performance engineering.

Mark Callaghan

January 19th, 2021

In part 1 of our Elasticsearch and Rockset comparison, we explore the operational costs associated with both real-time analytics solutions.

Shawn Adams

December 22nd, 2020

In this blog post, we'll look at what it takes to join data sets in Elasticsearch and in Rockset, using the same online marketplace example.

Lewis Gavin

December 17th, 2020

Build performant internal apps with Retool and Rockset by just using data APIs and pre-built UI components. We show you how to integrate Rockset with Retool on a customer 360 sample app.

Ben Rogojan

December 10th, 2020

Hieu shares thoughts on columnar databases, RocksDB, SQL engines and his year as an engineer at Rockset.

Hieu Pham

November 24th, 2020

Rockset enables millisecond-latency queries on terabytes of data because all data ingested is indexed multiple ways in its Converged Index. Learn how the Converged Index works in this blog post.

Shawn Adams

November 19th, 2020

We explain and show how users can perform schemaless ingestion of their data and then use Rockset's Smart Schema to enable SQL queries directly on that data.

Shawn Adams

November 12th, 2020

This post weighs the advantages and disadvantages of moving read-heavy analytics off a primary MongoDB database using Elasticsearch for indexing.

Shawn Adams

October 27th, 2020

Rockset is the real-time cloud database built for modern data apps, bringing speed, scale and simplicity to developers building real-time analytics.

Venkat Venkataramani

October 27th, 2020

Nathan Bronson is joining Rockset to make real-time data infrastructure simple for users at scale.

Nathan Bronson

October 26th, 2020

Rumble encourages people to lead healthy lifestyles by providing incentives based on how much walking they do. Rockset to powers Rumble's real-time leaderboards, which serve to motivate its users to keep active.

Nadine Farah

October 8th, 2020

How can you investigate query performance issues in MongoDB? We give an overview of 3 tools available for troubleshooting slow queries in MongoDB Atlas.

Ben Rogojan

October 1st, 2020

A step-by-step guide to building a real-time customer 360 using seconds-old purchase data from MongoDB and marketing data from Kafka.

Lewis Gavin

September 25th, 2020

Offloading read-heavy analytics from an operational database, like MongoDB, is a common architectural pattern. This post examines 3 options for offloading MongoDB to a secondary system.

Ben Rogojan

September 15th, 2020

This post introduces RockBench, a benchmark for measuring the data latency of real-time databases. We ran RockBench on Rockset, which maintained a 1-second data latency while ingesting 1 billion events in a day.

Dhruba Borthakur

September 3rd, 2020

This post weighs the advantages and disadvantages of moving real-time analytics off a primary MongoDB database to PostgreSQL.

Shawn Adams

August 27th, 2020

With Rockset, Danish fintech Matter has the flexibility to run analytical queries on semi-structured data in S3 and DynamoDB as part of their NLP architecture.

Alexander Harrington

August 25th, 2020

Now that we've identified and investigated the slow and problematic queries on MongoDB, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages to various strategies for improving the performance of our database.

Justin Liu

August 20th, 2020

We released Rockset Developer Tools, including a new CLI tool and a new VS Code extension, to make it easier to develop real-time data applications on Rockset.

Tanmay Chordia

August 18th, 2020

We explore the continuum of real-time analytics, from live, interactive dashboards to online applications that automatically take action on real-time data.

Shruti Bhat

August 13th, 2020

Serverless architectures offer ease of use and cost advantages. We explore what serverless means for your data stack.

Shruti Bhat

August 11th, 2020

Companies need to embrace real-time analytics to compete and survive. Only those that have invested in a real-time data stack will thrive.

Dhruba Borthakur

August 10th, 2020

eGoGames improves user experience, detects fraud, and makes business decisions using Rockset for real-time analytics on gaming data in Amazon DynamoDB and S3.

Kevin Leong

August 10th, 2020

A real-time A/B experiments system is the best showcase of the power of real-time analytics. This post explains how to build for the requirements of a massive-scale A/B experiments platform.

Venkat Venkataramani

August 7th, 2020

Latency is one of the most essential factors in the performance of any application at scale. We explore various methods of identifying slow queries on MongoDB and understand how to improve them.

Justin Liu

July 29th, 2020

Performance of your primary MongoDB cluster is crucial. We look at how using multiple MongoDB clusters can help with performance isolation.

Dai Shi

July 23rd, 2020

Real-time analytics demands low-latency complex queries. We discuss various options for speeding up read performance, including indexing, replication and sharding in MongoDB.

Shawn Adams

July 21st, 2020

Lessons on building real-time data architectures based on experiences growing Facebook users 30x, from 50 million to 1.5 billion.

Venkat Venkataramani

July 16th, 2020

An in-depth look at indexing MongoDB data in Rockset and how it compares to indexing in MongoDB itself.

Ben Hannel

July 14th, 2020

StoryFire uses Rockset to index data from their transactional MongoDB database to achieve performance and scale for analytical queries on their social video platform.

Ben Hagan

July 8th, 2020

Generate ETA predictions for a delivery service using real-time location and order data from Kafka and DynamoDB.

Kartik Khare

June 23rd, 2020

Implementing a real-time recommendations API for an event ticketing system by indexing MongoDB data in Rockset for fast SQL.

Lewis Gavin

June 16th, 2020

We explore how real-time indexing on MongoDB enables fast aggregation and join queries, and how Rockset is specifically designed to meet real-time indexing requirements.

Kevin Leong

June 9th, 2020

A compilation of MongoDB performance tuning resources, covering topics such as sharding, indexing, schema design and performance isolation.

Kevin Leong

June 4th, 2020

To optimize RocksDB for cloud environments, we modified RocksDB-Cloud to allow remote compactions, separating compaction compute from storage, for greater efficiency.

Hieu Pham

June 2nd, 2020

Sessions to look forward to for MongoDB.live 2020

Nadine Farah

May 19th, 2020

Build a Python application to create and execute APIs on aggregations and joins using Rockset and MongoDB.

Nadine Farah

May 6th, 2020

Learn how Rockset indexes data from MongoDB change data capture (CDC) streams and how it compares to indexing in Elasticsearch.

Kshitij Wadhwa

April 28th, 2020

Rockset uses Converged Indexing to make different types of queries run fast. We look at how Rockset's Index Scan uses the search index to accelerate range scans.

Karen Li

April 20th, 2020

While joins are primarily an SQL concept, they are equally important in the NoSQL world as well. We explore how to perform the equivalent of SQL joins when using Elasticsearch.

Shawn Adams

April 3rd, 2020

This post outlines a fleet management solution using IoT and data technologies, such as DynamoDB, AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, and Rockset.

Abhijeet Upadhyay

March 19th, 2020

We discuss when stream processing, with KSQL and Kafka Streams, and when a real-time database like Rockset are best used for analyzing Kafka data.

Ari Ekmekji

March 12th, 2020

Just as Rockset has reimagined and dramatically simplified the traditional ETL pipeline on the data-loading side, we’re now proud to release a new product feature - Query Lambdas - that similarly rethinks the data application development workflow.

Scott Morris

March 5th, 2020

What are the key considerations when selecting an analytics stack for building data applications on Kafka event streams?

Kevin Leong

February 28th, 2020

This is a tech preview of an integration that will allow you to index your MongoDB data in row, column and inverted indexes, and run millisecond-latency SQL queries in real-time.

Shruti Bhat

February 14th, 2020

We demonstrate how to expose real-time IoT data in Kafka through the Rockset REST API in this example.

Lewis Gavin

February 7th, 2020

In this IoT example, we examine how to enable complex analytic queries on real-time Kafka streams from connected car sensors.

Shawn Adams

January 28th, 2020

Standard Cognition, an AI-powered computer vision company, uses Rockset to enable their developers to deliver data APIs and product improvements.

Kevin Leong

January 23rd, 2020

An overview of what makes RocksDB well-suited to power many of the world's high-performance distributed data systems.

Ethan Hamilton

January 17th, 2020

Learn how to create a SQL API for real-time Kafka analytics on the Twitter Streaming API, using AWS Lambda and Rockset.

Tanmay Chordia

January 10th, 2020

Using SQL to join DynamoDB and S3 data, operations teams can perform live, ad-hoc analysis across multiple cloud systems.

Ben Rogojan

December 9th, 2019

Data engineers are often tasked with moving and preparing data to facilitate analytics. This guest post examines several considerations for data engineers designing for real-time analytics.

Lewis Gavin

November 6th, 2019

We discuss how different data backends - Druid, Elasticsearch and Rockset - can be used alongside Kafka for analytics on event data streams.

Anirudh Ramanathan

October 31st, 2019

This guest post lays out the benefits of using DynamoDB, including 5 real-life examples, along with recommendations for performing analytics on DynamoDB data.

Ben Rogojan

October 21st, 2019

Learn how our UX team continually improves common user workflows in Rockset to simplify development of data-driven applications.

Aditi Dhar

October 10th, 2019

Build a real-time Tableau dashboard for operational monitoring and analytics on streaming event data from Kafka.

Scott Morris

October 1st, 2019

Learn how we rolled our own tool for analysis and visualization of Kubernetes events, and try the open-source dashboard for yourself.

Rui Aguiar

September 20th, 2019

How to use Rockset's fast geospatial indexes with Airbnb data.

Ben Hannel

September 13th, 2019

How Rockset uses Grafana dashboards for monitoring production systems, Kubernetes, and GitHub metrics, and how we built a Rockset-Grafana plugin.

Rui Aguiar

September 6th, 2019

An architecture for real-time decision-making and live dashboards on VR data in Kafka, coming from live-streamed events.

Sebastian Zangaro

August 29th, 2019

We create an example dashboard in Tableau on data in DynamoDB, using Rockset as the SQL intelligence layer.

Vahid Fazel-Rezai

August 27th, 2019

How to avoid costly mistakes with DynamoDB partition keys, read/write capacity modes, and global secondary indexes.

Anirudh Ramanathan

August 27th, 2019

We explore operational analytics and why providing insights in real time to large numbers of users is crucial for organizations.

Jay Maloney

August 23rd, 2019

Get an inside look at the some of the techniques we used to reduce the cost of ingesting data from DynamoDB.

Aditi Srinivasan

August 21st, 2019

Get an in-depth look at the Kafka Connect Plugin for Rockset and the process to get it listed in Confluent Hub.

Jacob Klegar

August 21st, 2019

What’s the fastest we can load data into RocksDB?

Igor Canadi

August 16th, 2019

We built an app to estimate the risk of a car break-in based on historical incidents.

Vahid Fazel-Rezai

August 13th, 2019

We review several approaches to building Tableau operational dashboards and reporting on DynamoDB data, using SQL engines like Redshift and Athena.

Ari Ekmekji

August 12th, 2019

We cover different approaches to real-time analytics on DynamoDB, using DynamoDB Streams, Lambda, and ElastiCache.

Ari Ekmekji

July 30th, 2019

All businesses today are a series of real-time events. But what separates the good from the great is how they capture and operationalize that data.

Shruti Bhat

July 25th, 2019

What are the characteristics of an Operational Analytics processing system, and how does it differ from OLTP, OLAP and other data systems?

Dhruba Borthakur

July 18th, 2019

We discuss how SQL query planning is implemented to support operational analytics requirements, like low latency and high concurrency, in Rockset.

Purvi Desai

July 9th, 2019

We examine various options for running SQL on JSON in relational databases, like PostgreSQL and MySQL, and in Rockset.

Shawn Adams

June 27th, 2019

This blog describes how we use RocksDB at Rockset and how we tuned it for optimal performance.

Sandeep Dhoot

June 20th, 2019

Run high performance queries for operational analytics on data from Redshift tables by continuously ingesting and indexing Redshift data through a Rockset-Redshift integration.

Kshitij Wadhwa

June 13th, 2019

Learn how and why Rockset developed a new SQL development environment for messy, semi-structured data.

Scott Morris

June 6th, 2019

This post shows one of many challenges that we encountered while building a fully dynamically typed SQL database: how we manipulate values of unknown types in our query execution backend, while approaching the performance of using native types directly.

Tudor Bosman

May 31st, 2019

Connect a Tableau live dashboard to a real-time event stream of complex JSON in a few easy steps.

Haneesh Reddy Poddutoori

May 24th, 2019

FULL Creative uses Rockset to build live dashboards and run complex SQL on contact center call data in DynamoDB.

Kevin Leong

May 23rd, 2019

Learn how Rockset delivers low-latency SQL for search and analytics using a combination of row, column, and search indexes.

Igor Canadi

May 17th, 2019

We built a web app that collects clickstream data as free-form JSON and runs SQL queries on the live data in a completely serverless fashion. We also seek to answer age-old questions besetting developers: tabs or spaces, vim or emacs?

Vahid Fazel-Rezai

May 17th, 2019

When the existential question of spaces vs. tabs came up in our team, we ran a real-time survey to collect thousands of data points around it. We also wanted to settle the debate around other developer issues like SQL vs NoSQL.

Shruti Bhat

May 6th, 2019

Decore needed to enable ad hoc queries in their crypto accounting software service, so they turned to Rockset for fast analytics on DynamoDB.

Kevin Leong

April 29th, 2019

We compare options for real-time analytics on DynamoDB - Elasticsearch, Athena, and Spark - in terms of ease of setup, maintenance, query capability, latency. We also evaluate which use cases each of them are best suited for.

Anirudh Ramanathan

April 29th, 2019

In this post I explore how to support analytical queries on DynamoDB without prohibitive scan costs - using secondary indexes. I also evaluate the pros and cons of this approach in contrast to extracting data to Athena, Spark or Elastic for analytics

Anirudh Ramanathan

March 27th, 2019

Rockset's schemaless SQL platform automatically infers schema at read time, allowing you to analyze messy data using SQL.

Purvi Desai

March 21st, 2019

Designed from the ground up for serverless data management, Rockset makes SQL search and analytics simple and accessible.

Venkat Venkataramani

March 19th, 2019

Fynd uses Rockset to perform fast queries on real-time Kafka event streams, so they can react to consumer behavior as it happens.

Kevin Leong

March 19th, 2019

An MIT team collaborates with a school in Brazil on a smart city project to analyze weather sensor data using Rockset.

Kevin Leong

March 19th, 2019

Pittsburgh-based developer Doug Balog collects and analyzes nested JSON weather data to improve pollution forecasts in his community.

Kevin Leong

February 28th, 2019

Build a chatbot that provides instant responses, leveraging fast SQL queries on CSV data.

Kshitij Wadhwa

February 21st, 2019

Use Rockset's Smart Schema to understand complex, nested JSON and enable immediate queries using SQL on raw data.

Purvi Desai

February 21st, 2019

Run SQL queries on data from PDF files, and join PDFs with JSON, CSV, XLSX, and other data.

Kshitij Wadhwa

February 13th, 2019

Rockset distributes aggregation queries to reduce query latency and memory requirements. This was an intern project by Ashwath, Rockset's first ever intern.

Ashwath Thirumalai

February 6th, 2019

The Aggregator Leaf Tailer architecture takes advantage of powerful indexing and cloud scalability to enable live analytics on real-time event streams.

Dhruba Borthakur

January 23rd, 2019

Run fast SQL queries on data from DynamoDB tables by continuously ingesting and indexing DynamoDB data through a Rockset-DynamoDB integration.

Kshitij Wadhwa

January 23rd, 2019

Build live dashboards by connecting Redash to Rockset to create visualizations quickly and easily.

Igor Canadi

January 21st, 2019

Run complex SQL across multiple Excel spreadsheets and join XLSX files with JSON, Parquet or CSV data.

Shruti Bhat

January 16th, 2019

Connect Kafka and Rockset to obtain real-time analytics with ad hoc SQL queries on event streams.

Shawn Adams

January 10th, 2019

How to query nested JSON and CSV using SQL (including joins), without any upfront data preparation or complex data pipelines - for interactive data science using Python notebooks.

Anirudh Ramanathan

January 8th, 2019

Build serverless microservices, data APIs, and data-driven applications. Use SQL to join and query JSON and CSV data using AWS Lambda and Rockset.

Kevin Leong

December 20th, 2018

Serve a live dashboard using SQL on streaming Twitter data from Amazon Kinesis.

Haneesh Reddy Poddutoori

December 7th, 2018

Make raw JSON immediately queryable through fast SQL queries, without ETL, data pipelines, or fixed schema.

Anirudh Ramanathan

November 7th, 2018

David Cohen, System Architect at Intel, explores how RocksDB-Cloud can be be used to build an open-source cloud-friendly storage system.

David Cohen

November 1st, 2018

Rockset Chief Architect Tudor Bosman discusses strong dynamic typing in SQL, and how it is implemented in Rockset.

Tudor Bosman

November 1st, 2018

SQL on unstructured data is hard. But storage and compute in the cloud are making SQL on raw data a reality.

Peter Bailis

October 30th, 2018

Rockset CTO and co-founder Dhruba Borthakur discusses what Cloud-Native data processing entails, and how best to build for the cloud today.

Dhruba Borthakur

October 19th, 2018

Rockset CTO and co-founder Dhruba Borthakur discusses the shift from Open Source to Open Services in data infrastructure, and how Open Services will become the new standard.

Dhruba Borthakur