Resources

From podcasts to how-to guides, white papers and videos, find what you need below.

Webinar
5 Steps for Migrating from Elasticsearch to Rockset for Search and Analytics

Hear real life examples of customers who have made the migration from Elasticsearch to Rockset and leave with a better understanding of the process.

Webinar
Deliver Better Product Recommendations with Real-Time AI & Vector Search

See a live demo of real-time product listings and OpenAI generated embeddings stream through Confluent Cloud into Rockset to be indexed for similarity search.

Video
Whiteboarding Session: Compute-compute separation architecture

Watch as co-founder and CTO Dhruba Borthakur whiteboards the architecture for compute-compute separation in the cloud. Rockset isolates ingest compute, query compute and hot storage for efficiency and predictable performance at scale.

Video
Whiteboarding Session: Vector search in Rockset

Dhruba Borthakur is the CTO and co-founder of Rockset. He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Earlier at Yahoo, he was one of the founding engineers of the Hadoop Distributed File System.

Webinar
Real-time search, filtering and aggregation on DynamoDB using Rockset

In this tech talk, John Terhune, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS and Dhruba Borthakur, Co-founder and CTO of Rockset will talk about using Rockset with DynamoDB.

Webinar
How Rockset Isolates Streaming Ingest and Queries

In this talk, we present a real-time analytics architecture implemented in the Rockset database that effectively isolates streaming data ingestion from query serving.

Webinar
Real-Time Analytics at Meta: Tracking PyTorch Continuous Integration for Developer-Facing Dashboards

The PyTorch Continuous Integration system, managed by Meta, runs 300M+ tests daily to validate code changes. Learn how Meta uses Rockset to track real-time stats to monitor the health of the CI system and the greenness of each change.

Webinar
Emerging Architectures for Real-Time Change Data Capture (CDC)

Shruti Bhat, Rockset CPO, shares emerging architectures, common use cases and best practices from working with our customers and CDC partners.

Webinar
CTO Talk: Comparing Elasticsearch and Rockset Streaming Ingest and Query Performance

Rockset CTO Dhruba Borthakur and founding engineer and architect Igor Canadi go under the hood of Elasticsearch and Rockset to compare and contrast their performance and architectures.

Video
From Spam Fighting at Facebook to Vector Search at Rockset: How to Build Real-Time Machine Learning at Scale

Learn how Rockset extends its real-time analytics database to support machine learning with new vector search capabilities.

White Paper
9 Lessons Learned Scaling Elasticsearch for Real-Time Analytics

We capture 9 lessons learned from engineering leaders who have scaled Elasticsearch for real-time analytics.

Office Hours
Live Office Hours: Architecting High Availability on Rockset

Join Nadine and David for a live office hour session on how to architect for HA on Rockset.

Video
What Data Engineers Should Know About Real-Time Analytics

Rockset co-founder and CTO Dhruba Borthakur’s presents at the 2022 Tecton apply Community Meetup, “What Data Engineers Should Know About Real-Time Analytics”.

Video
Rockset real-time analytics software architecture with co-founder and CTO Dhruba Borthakur

Hear Rockset's CTO and co-founder, Dhruba Borthakur, talk through Rockset's architecture. In this video, Dhruba reviews how data is ingested, stored, and queried in Rockset and why it is simple to use, incredibly fast, and infinitely scalable.

Video
How construction logistics company Command Alkon built its platform to surface data and analytics across the supply chain

How Command Alkon, a leader in construction logistics, built its CONNEX platform to surface data and analytics across the supply chain.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 13: Data Engineering & Data Science Trends

Seattle Data Guy sits with the Rockset podcast team, sharing his thoughts on data engineering and data science trends, tools and future expectations.

Video
Complementing DynamoDB with Rockset for Real-Time IoT Analytics

1NCE is a IoT connectivity provider that helps their customers gain access to a fast, reliable global network. Hear Jan Sulaiman talk about how 1NCE complemented their DynamoDB deployment with Rockset to enable real-time analytics, full SQL on DynamoDB, and faster time to market.

Video
Enabling Real-Time Analytical Operations in Hardware Manufacturing

PCH International is a leading hardware manufacturer with global operations that requires ultra-fast analysis of huge volumes of streaming data. The existing data infrastructure built on MongoDB and DynamoDB couldn’t support real-time querying of data. Learn how Rockset enabled PCH to perform ad hoc complex queries within seconds, a huge improvement over the one-hour latency they were seeing before.

Video
Workshop: Real-Time Dashboards with DynamoDB, Rockset and Grafana

Join the AWS-Rockset joint workshop to build real-time dashboards using DynamoDB, Rockset and Grafana

White Paper
17 New Things Every Modern Data Engineer Should Know in 2022

We asked thought leaders in our industry to ponder what they believe will be the new ideas that will influence or change the way we do things in the coming year. Here are their contributions.

Office Hours
Live Office Hours: How to setup up monitoring and alerting for mission-critical apps on Rockset

Join Nadine and Tyler for a live office hour session on how to setup up monitoring and alerting for mission-critical apps on Rockset.

Video
Real-Time Analytics for Modern Data Apps

Hear Bloor Group CEO Eric Kavanagh examine the sea change in Analytics. He'll be briefed by Shruti Bhat of Rockset, who will demonstrate how their platform eliminates the cost and complexity of developing modern data apps.

White Paper
Rockset Performance Evaluation on the Star Schema Benchmark (April 2022)

We evaluated Rockset's query performance on the SSB. Rockset was able to execute the entire suite of 13 queries in under 664 milliseconds.

Podcast
Hashmap Podcast Episode #104 - Making Real Time a Reality with Venkat Venkataramani, Co-Founder and CEO at Rockset

On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Venkat Venkataramani. Venkat is Co-Founder and CEO at Rockset, a real-time analytics database company that serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries at cloud scale. Prior to starting Rockset, Venkat spent 8 years with Facebook where he led the engineering teams that built Facebook's online data systems.

Webinar
Compute-Compute Separation: A New Cloud Architecture for Real-Time Analytics

Rockset is the first and only database to separate both compute-storage and compute-compute, making real-time analytics more affordable and accessible than ever before. With compute-compute separation in the cloud, users can allocate multiple, isolated clusters for processing ingest compute or query compute while sharing the same real-time data.

Webinar
Real-Time Analytics for Modern Data Apps

Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear Bloor Group CEO Eric Kavanagh examine the sea change in Analytics. He'll be briefed by Shruti Bhat of Rockset, who will demonstrate how their platform organizes data in a Converged Index for sub-second SQL queries on data 1-2 seconds old. The result is a real-time analytics platform that eliminates the cost and complexity of developing modern data apps.

Office Hours
Live Office Hours: How to optimize query latency with SQL performance tuning

Join Nadine and David for a live office hour session on how to optimize query latency with SQL performance tuning

Office Hours
Live Office Hours: How to optimize cost and query latency with SQL transformations and rollups

Join Tyler and Nadine for a live office hours session on how to optimize cost and query latency with SQL transformations and rollups.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 12: Building vs Buying Real-Time Analytics

Compute costs are growing, storage has limitations, and the ability to scale is dependent on a lot of factors. Jared Rosoff, Director of Product Management at Google, talks with us about challenges like latency and trying to query transactional databases in real time. He discusses investing in real-time analytics by building the system or buying the technology.

Workshop
Past: Live AWS Rockset Workshop

Join the AWS-Rockset joint workshop to build real-time dashboards using DynamoDB, Rockset and Grafana.

Video
Trying Out Rockset Real-Time Analytics Database

Watch as Andreas Kretz, the Plumber of Data Science, gets started with Rockset for real-time analytics using an example project.

Webinar
Modern Real-Time Data Stack: Emerging Cloud Architectures for Streaming Data Analytics

Join us for a talk on the modern real-time data stack that digital disrupters are using to transform the user experience.

Webinar
Designing the Next Generation of Data Systems for Real-Time Analytics

In this webinar alongside The Hive, Dhruba talks about the technical requirements of cutting-edge systems including the ability to handle high-velocity streaming data from event streams and constantly changing data from database CDC. Join the talk and learn the attributes of the systems behind the next wave of digital disrupters including the ability to handle bursty data, complex analytics, and have flexible schemas.

Webinar
How E-Learning Platform, Seesaw, Scaled 10x During Shutdown with Rockset & Hightouch

Learn how Seesaw operationalized their business by bringing real-time analytics into business applications, enabling their team to scale 10x during the COVID pandemic.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 11: Varying Degrees of Real-Time Analytics

What action are you taking from the data? This is the central question that Michel Tricot asks teams to guide their latency requirements. At Airbyte, Michel is giving companies the choice around how real-time they want their data, regardless of the data source, and making it easy to access data for analytics.

Video
Views Materialization with DBT + Rockset

A demo where we'll walk through how to setup the dbt-Rockset Adapter and transform streaming data in real-time.

Webinar
How We Built SQL Rollups on Streaming Data

Rollups in Rockset pre-aggregate streaming data at ingest time. Learn how we built SQL rollups to support exactly-once write semantics and process out-of-order arrivals correctly.

Video
Real-time analytics trend sweeping the data industry - Venkat Venkataramani and Dhruba Borthakur, Rockset | CUBE Conversation

Real-time analytics is a huge differentiator whether you’re building a software product or you’re running a business,” says Venkat Venkataramani. Venkat’s advice- act fast. Learn about the real-time analytics trend sweeping the data industry in this CUBE interview.

Video
Rockset | The Fast Path to Real-Time Analytics at Seesaw

Seesaw uses Rockset to operationalize their business and product experience using real-time analytics. Learn how one of the leading learning platforms is making data-driven decisions faster in this CUBE interview.

Webinar
dbt and Rockset Office Hours

Join us at office hours where we’ll showcase the dbt-Rockset adapter, making it easy to transform data in real-time using dbt.

Webinar
Think You Know SQL? 3 Common Misconceptions About SQL Databases, Speed and Scale

In this talk, we’ll discuss how modern SQL databases can be well-suited to handling real-time data streams, combining the benefits of NoSQL with the ease of SQL.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 10: Self-service data analytics with Grafbase CEO, Fredrik Bjork

Fredrik Bjork has traversed the data space, creating a gaming social network, scaling the RealReal's marketplace and now investing in the data startups. Hear how the data experience has changed with each endeavor and what trends he's must bullish on in this podcast.

White Paper
Rockset vs Apache Druid for Real-Time Analytics

Rockset and Apache Druid are real-time analytics solutions commonly used with streaming data. Learn how they differ in their architecture and operations.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 9: Data Analytics and Modeling with Connectly CTO

Yandong Liu, the co-founder and CTO of Connectly.ai discusses data analytics and modeling, the importance of semi-structured data when dealing with streaming events, data reliability, deploying good data modeling into production and investing in data infrastructure.

Podcast
Dhruba Borthakur on Embedding Real-time Analytics in Applications

Dhruba Borthakur, CTO and co-founder of Rockset, discusses the core requirements of real-time analytics, how it differs from traditional analytics, and the use cases that benefit from it.

Podcast
dbt Podcast - The Future of Analytics Engineering Episode 2 - Venkat Venkataramani of Rockset on the Future of Real-time Analytics

Step with Venkat into a world where data is always fresh, queries run in 1ms, and analytics engineers build web-scale, real-time data apps.

Podcast
Powering Real-Time Analytics with Apache Kafka and Rockset

How do you use Apache Kafka and Rockset to perform complex joins, search, and aggregations on streaming data with low latencies? Join Dhruba and Tim Berglund of Confluent on the #StreamingAudio podcast to learn more.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 8: Top data trends with Ben Lorica

Ben Lorica and Dhruba talk about top data trends that Data Officers, Scientists and CTOs are investigating and planning around, data OPS in ML and AI and Gradient Flow.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 7: Real Time Analytics for Data Applications

Modernizing Data stacks and becoming more data informed, listen to James Mayfield of Transform (previously Facebook and AirBnB) talk about enabling data applications with real-time analytics.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 6: Real Time Analytics in Cybersecurity

Dive into the world of security real-time analytics in security with the director of data engineering and data science at Picnic Score. Glean insights into extended detection response, streaming analytics, social engineering and more.

Video
Sub-Second Analytics for User-Facing Applications with Apache Spark™ and Rockset

Rockset’s CEO and Co-founder Venkat Venkataramani shares more about Spark+Rockset coming together to serve fast queries on fresh data and the lakehouse architecture for data-intensive applications.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 5: Real Time Analytics In Retail

Kshitij Kumar, the 1st Chief Data Officer at Farfetch, talks about data culture, the shift from cloud to serverless, and the different types of real-time analytics.

White Paper
7 Reference Architectures for Real-Time Analytics

We’re introducing 7 new data stacks for real-time analytics that are built for speed, scale and simplicity.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 4: Pain Points of Real-Time Analytics Systems

Hear from Uber infrastructure and data specialist Zheng Shao, (ex, Yahoo, Facebook, Dropbox) who has designed multiple real-time analytics systems in the past.

Webinar
Serverless Real-Time Analytics Using Amazon DynamoDB and Rockset

We’re talking serverless stacks for real-time analytics with AWS Sr. Practice Manager Rick Houlihan and Rockset Solution Architect David Brown.

Webinar
Scaling MySQL for Analytical Workloads

To scale analytical workloads on MySQL, we can use Rockset as an external index on MySQL data.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 3: SaaS Real Time Analytics

In Episode 3, we connect with Ali Dasdan, Head of Engineering for Confluence Cloud at Atlassian. We talk about his expanse of knowledge in real-time analytics.

White Paper
Real-Time Analytics: Why It Matters & Why It’s Hard

In this whitepaper, we’ll share how industries are realizing the need for real-time analytics but facing data and operational challenges that impede implementation.

Webinar
Snowflake With Rockset: How to Use Indexing For Sub-Second Queries

User-facing analytics requires low-latency, high-concurrency queries that are hard to achieve on Snowflake. Learn how development teams accelerate their apps by indexing Snowflake data in Rockset.

Webinar
Why You Shouldn’t Build Apps on Data Warehouses

In this talk, we explore several considerations that make it challenging to build apps on data warehouses: query performance, freshness of data and compute cost.

White Paper
Increasing the ROI of Real-Time Analytics

Learn how engineering teams are increasing their ROI with a real-time analytics solution designed for low latency, data flexibility and minimal operations.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 2: Logistics SaaS Real-Time Analytics

TruckX’s Founder Tapan Chaudhari walks through his hardware and software platform that helps trucking companies’ and fleet managers better track their assets.

Podcast
Rockset Podcast Episode 1: Security SaaS Real-Time Analytics

With Dhruba Borkathur, Rockset CTO & Co-Founder and guest Deb Banjeree, Co-founder and CTO at Anvilogic, an Automated Detection Platform company

Video
DC_THURS on Analytical Data Processing w/ Venkat Venkataramani, Co-Founder & CEO at Rockset

Hear how Venkat had a front-row seat in watching real-time data emerge at Facebook, and the insights he gained about the future of data processing that led him to start Rockset.

Webinar
Building Real-Time Search in Your App: Beyond Text Search and Elasticsearch

The ability to support many different types of queries without having to reshape your data is particularly helpful when building real-time search and analytics. We compare how using Elasticsearch and Rockset impacts the query flexibility you have.

White Paper
Rockset Concepts, Design & Architecture

This document describes the architecture of Rockset and the design choices and innovations which enable it to produce highly efficient execution of complex distributed queries across diverse data sets.

White Paper
Rockset Security Design

Security is important to Rockset and taken very seriously. This document describes the current state of security of Rockset.

White Paper
Evaluating Data Latency for Real-Time Databases

RockBench is a benchmark designed to measure the data latency of a real-time database. This paper describes RockBench in detail and the results from running the benchmark on Rockset, a real-time indexing database.

White Paper
Rockset Performance Evaluation on the Star Schema Benchmark

We evaluate Rockset’s ability to support real-time analytics by measuring its query performance on the Star Schema Benchmark.

Webinar
How 3 SaaS Companies Built Real-Time Analytics

We highlight the key considerations for three SaaS companies implementing real-time analytics at scale.

Video
Be a More Productive Dev with Real-time Analytics as an API

Nadine Farah talks about the landscape of real-time analytics and how you can build real-time apps with just APIs.

Webinar
Reimagining Real-Time Analytics in the Cloud

Rockset co-founders Venkat Venkataramani and Dhruba Borthakur share the trends they are seeing in the market and their vision for a real-time cloud data stack.

Webinar
Real-Time Analytics at Speed and Scale: When Managing Elasticsearch Gets Too Hard

In this tech talk, we assess Elasticsearch and Rockset for real-time analytics on real-time ingest, data flexibility and scalability.

Video
Rockset: Realtime Indexing for Fast Queries on Massive Semi-structured Data (Dhruba Borthakur)

Dhruba Borthakur presents on real-time indexing for fast queries on massive semi-structured data at Carnegie.

White Paper
Real-Time Analytics on MongoDB: The Ultimate Guide

In this eBook, we have compiled a series of blogs into a single resource—a developer’s ultimate guide to evaluating the various options for real-time analytics on MongoDB.

White Paper
Real-time Analytics on DynamoDB: The Ultimate Guide

In this ebook, we discuss the analytical query performance of DynamoDB and compare different options for ETL and analytics tools including Athena, Hive/Spark, Elasticsearch, ElasticCache for Redis, and more.

Webinar
How We Scaled It: Facebook's Online Data Infrastructure to 1B+ Users

An inside look into building massively scalable online infrastructure at Facebook.

Webinar
Real-Time Analytics on Data Lakes

In this talk, Rockset Co-founder and CTO Dhruba Borthakur explains how real-time indexing on data lakes provides up to 125X faster queries than Athena.

White Paper
Future of Real-time Analytics

In this whitepaper, we’re sharing the 5 key principles for real-time analytics of the future.

Webinar
Scaling Real-time Gaming Leaderboards for Millions of Players

A tech talk on the growing need for real-time leaderboards that can handle user activity at massive scale and real-time aggregations and joins.

Webinar
Running Real-time A/B Experiments at Massive Scale

In this talk, Rockset Co-founder and CEO Venkat Venkataramani will cover the changing face of real-time analytics and what that means for the data stack.

White Paper
Elasticsearch v. Rockset Whitepaper

Rockset's Converged Index™ enables faster time to market and up to 50% lower TCO as compared to Elasticsearch’s search index, for real-time analytics use cases. This is achieved by optimizing for hardware and developer efficiency in the cloud.

Webinar
Serverless Real-time Indexing: A Low Ops Alternative to Elasticsearch

In this talk, we compare and contrast Elasticsearch and Rockset as indexing data stores for serving low latency queries.

How-To Guide
Designing a Real-Time ETA Prediction System Using Kafka, DynamoDB and Rockset

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

Webinar
Scaling MongoDB: Best Practices for Sharding, Indexing and Performance Isolation

A tech talk on how organizations tackle the challenges of sharding, indexing and offloading queries to scale MongoDB

How-To Guide
Real-Time Recommendations for Event Ticketing Using MongoDB and Rockset

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

Video
JOINs and Aggregations Using Real-Time Indexing on MongoDB Atlas

Learn how Rockset builds real-time indexes on MongoDB data for search, aggregations and joins.

How-To Guide
Create APIs for Aggregations and Joins on MongoDB in Under 15 minutes

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

How-To Guide
Using MongoDB Change Streams for Indexing with Elasticsearch vs Rockset

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

White Paper
Understanding Rockset

A guide to help you understand how Rockset works including the basics of integrating data sources, creating collections, running SQL queries and building real-time applications.

White Paper
Query Performance Assessment

An inside look into the performance of Rockset, illustrating real-world numbers for what you can expect when querying data in Rockset.

Webinar
How Standard Cognition Builds AI-powered Autonomous Checkout on Computer Vision Data

A tech talk on building real-time applications on computer vision data with customer Standard Cognition

How-To Guide
How to Use KSQL Stream Processing and Real-Time Databases to Analyze Streaming Data in Kafka

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.

Video
RocksDB Meetup 2020 at Rockset

Two RocksDB talks on stateful stream processing at LinkedIn and characterizing key-value workloads at Facebook.

How-To Guide
Where's My Tesla? Creating a Data API Using Kafka, Rockset and Postman to Find Out

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

Webinar
SQL on NoSQL - Enabling Real-Time Analytics on DynamoDB

This tech talk covers how change data capture with DynamoDB Streams can be used to enable complex queries for analytics.

How-To Guide
Real-Time Analytics on Connected Car IoT Data Streams from Apache Kafka

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

Video
How Real-Time Updates Work on Rockset with Kshitij

Kshitij is a software engineer here at Rockset. This video will talk about how real-time updates work on Rockset via Rockset's Patch API and remote compaction for writes.

Video
How Query Lambdas Make it Easy to Build on Rockset + Developer Tool Demo

Scott is an engineer at Rockset and helped build Query Lambdas. In the developer video, he'll be talking and showing you how Query Lambdas make it easier for you to build applications.

Video
Rockset's Developer Tool Demo: CLI, Developer UI, and VSCode Plugin

There are now more ways to create and execute query lambdas than just the console! Check out the demo to see the new release of our developer tools.

Video
Smart Schema: Enabling SQL on Schemaless Data

Purvi is a software engineer at Rockset, where she helped built Smart Schemas. This video covers how you can go from raw data (without ever knowing the shape of your data) to insights with the help of smart schemas.

Video
Rockset Product Overview with Nadine

Nadine shares how to use Rockset to power data-driven applications.

Video
How Rockset Does Query Plan Optimization

Ari is a software engineer at Rockset where he helps build all aspects of query planning and execution. This video covers how Rockset performs query plan optimization through various examples.

Video
How Rockset's Converged Index Works

Igor is a Founding Engineer at Rockset, where he is building its data indexing and the distributed SQL query engine. This video goes over how Rockset indexes your data via a Converged Index.

Podcast
Balancing Coding And Management With Dhruba Borthakur

Dhruba shares his experience as Rockset CTO and how he still finds time to write code in addition to building a strong technical team.

How-To Guide
SQL API for Real-Time Kafka Analytics in 3 Steps

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

Webinar
Best Practices for Analyzing Kafka Event Streams

Dhruba Borthakur discusses various design patterns for building analytics on Kafka event streams in this tech talk.

Video
Rockset Demo Replay

Recorded version of our weekly live demo, where we go from raw data to real-time applications and dashboards, powered by Rockset.

How-To Guide
Analytics on Kafka Event Streams Using Druid, Elasticsearch and Rockset

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

How-To Guide
Using Tableau with Kafka: How to Build a Real-Time SQL Dashboard on Streaming Data

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

Podcast
Fast Analytics On Semi-Structured And Structured Data In The Cloud

Venkat Venkataramani and Shruti Bhat explain how Rockset is architected to allow for fast and flexible SQL analytics on your data.

How-To Guide
How We Analyze and Visualize Kubernetes Events in Real Time at Rockset

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

How-To Guide
Outside Lands, Airbnb Prices, and Rockset’s Geospatial Queries

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

How-To Guide
Using Tableau with DynamoDB: How to Build a Real-Time SQL Dashboard on NoSQL Data

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

How-To Guide
3 cost-cutting tips for Amazon DynamoDB

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

How-To Guide
Tableau Operational Dashboards and Reporting on DynamoDB

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

How-To Guide
Custom Live Dashboards on DynamoDB

We cover different approaches to live dashboards on DynamoDB, using DynamoDB Streams, Lambda, and ElastiCache.

Video
Tech Talk: ALT architecture for low-latency queries on large datasets

We present how the Aggregator-Leaf-Tailer architecture is used to implement Rockset's low-latency, serverless operational analytics engine.

Podcast
Facebook Data Infrastructure with Dhruba Borthakur

Dhruba joins the show to discuss his time at Facebook building data infrastructure. He takes us through the major projects he worked on.

How-To Guide
Redshift with Rockset: High performance queries for operational analytics

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

Video
Data Council SF 19: Architecting a Low-Latency Schemaless SQL Engine

Learn about the challenges when adapting SQL to principles of strong dynamic typing and the idea of a Converged Index.

Podcast
Venkat Venkataramani - Valuing People

Venkat Venkataramani talks with Dave Rael about leadership, humility, contribution, commitment to doing the right things, and valuing people over software and data.

Podcast
Bringing Scalable Real-Time Analytics to the Enterprise

Dhruba Borthakur and Shruti Bhat share how Rockset is bringing operational analytics to the enterprise by simplifying data architecture in the cloud.

How-To Guide
Using Tableau for Live Dashboards on Event Data

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

Podcast
Up and Coming: Three Startups with Amazing Potential

Venkat Venkataramani discusses how Rockset is innovating in cloud data management to minimize the effort needed to get from data to apps.

How-To Guide
Building a Serverless Analytics App to Capture and Query Clickstream Data

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.

Video
NorCalDB2019: Powering fast SQL over semi-structured data in Rockset

We discuss and demonstrate some of the key aspects of Rockset: strong dynamic typing, the Converged Index, and continuous auto-scaling.

Video
Kafka Meetup: Operational Analytics on Event Streams in Kafka

We demonstrate how to create stateful microservices to analyze event streams using Kafka and Rockset.

How-To Guide
Analytics on DynamoDB: Comparing Athena, Spark and Elastic

We compare options for real-time analytics on DynamoDB in terms of ease of setup, maintenance, query capability, and latency.

Video
Strata 2019: A Data System for Low-Latency Queries for Search and Analytics

Learn how Rockset's Converged Index—combining columnar and search indexes—powers fast search and analytics.

How-To Guide
How to Build a Facebook Messenger Chatbot Powered by Fast SQL on CSV

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

How-To Guide
Using Smart Schema to Accelerate Insights from Nested JSON

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

How-To Guide
How to Run SQL on PDF Files

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

Podcast
RocksDB with Dhruba Borthakur and Igor Canadi

Dhruba and Igor explain the technology behind RocksDB, which backs some of the most demanding applications and databases around.

How-To Guide
Visualize Data in Rockset with Redash

Create visualizations on your Rockset data quickly and easily using native integration with Redash.

How-To Guide
Running Fast SQL on DynamoDB Tables

Run SQL queries on your DynamoDB tables without any ETL and without impacting your production workloads.

How-To Guide
Rockset adds Excel spreadsheet support

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

How-To Guide
Real-Time Analytics Using SQL on Streaming Data with Apache Kafka and Rockset

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

How-To Guide
Building a Serverless Microservice Using Rockset and AWS Lambda

Use SQL to join and query JSON and CSV data, and build a serverless microservice using AWS Lambda.

Podcast
Rockset Data Platform with Venkat Venkataramani

Venkat discusses his journey from scaling data infrastructure at Facebook to transforming how data-driven apps are built at Rockset.

How-To Guide
Building a Live Dashboard on Streaming Data Using Amazon Kinesis and Rockset

Serve real-time analytics on Twitter data, using SQL on streaming data from Amazon Kinesis.

How-To Guide
Running SQL on Nested JSON

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

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Revolutionizing Big Data Apps

Rockset CEO Venkat Venkataramani talks about building apps without pipelines, and serverless search and analytics with native SQL.

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From Useful Data to Useful Applications with Rockset

Rockset CEO Venkat Venkataramani explains how Rockset makes it really simple to build data-driven apps with very fast SQL on raw data.

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Speeding Cloud-Native App Development with Rockset

Rockset CTO Dhruba Borthakur speaks with ActualTech about what Rockset does and how it changes the game for enterprises.

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CUBEConversation: Venkat Venkataramani, Rockset & Jerry Chen, Greylock

Venkat and Jerry discuss Rockset's vision and the future of cloud and data.

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Building Live Apps on Raw Data with Rockset

As the first cloud service that runs SQL directly on raw data, Rockset greatly simplifies app development and data science on complex data sets.

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Data Gravity Why Cloud Databases Will Prevail

The cloud has greatly enhanced our ability to produce and store large masses of data, volumes that could never fit in most traditional data centers. And the larger the body of data is, the more services and tools it attracts. This creates “Data Gravity” – a force almost as strong as Isaac Newton’s imagination.

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JetBlue Scales Real-Time AI on Rockset

"Iteration and the speed of new ML products was the most important to us. With Rockset, we found a database that could keep up with the fast pace of innovation at JetBlue," says Sai Ravuru, Senior Manager of Data Science and Analytics at JetBlue.

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Real-time AI: Live Recommendations Using Confluent and Rockset

We discuss using Confluent Cloud’s data streaming platform and Rockset’s vector search capabilities to power real-time AI applications.

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How Windward Built Real-Time Logistics Tracking and AI Insights for the Maritime Industry

Learn how Windward built a real-time data platform that enables rapid innovation in AI for the maritime industry.

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Real-Time Clinical Trial Monitoring at Clinical ink

How Clinical ink built a real-time 360-degree view of patients and their outcomes across global clinical trials by migrating from Opensearch to Rockset for DynamoDB indexing.

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Developing Global Labor Market Intelligence at SkyHive Using Rockset and Databricks

SkyHive builds a platform for labor market intelligence, using Databricks for ML processing and Rockset to serve their user-facing application.

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Scaling Our SaaS Sales Training Platform with Real-Time Analytics from Rockset

As users and data volumes grew, ConveYour needed to scale their customer-facing dashboards. Learn how their developer team achieved scalability, concurrency and low ops using Rockset.

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Case Study: How Rockset's Real-Time Analytics Platform Propels the Growth of Our NFT Marketplace

Own the Moment uses Rockset to build the real-time analytics and leaderboards that are core to their NFT and fantasy sports platform.

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PyTorch Infra's Journey to Rockset

The PyTorch infra team at Meta runs thousands of tests to validate every change as part of their Continuous Integration. Learn how they moved to Rockset to deliver metrics on the health of their CI.

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Case Study: iYOTAH Brings Real-Time IoT Analytics to Dairy Farming with Its AgTech SaaS Platform

iYOTAH uses real-time IoT data to moooo-ve dairy farming into a smart future.

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Case Study: How Rockset Turbocharges Real-Time Personalization at Whatnot

Whatnot implemented real-time personalization for their live shopping platform using Rockset, which proved a more efficient alternative to Elasticsearch.

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Case Study: Is Your NoSQL Data Hindering Real-Time Analytics? Savvy Solved It with Rockset.

Savvy provides real-time analytics for growth teams using its service to create no-code interactive experiences. Learn how they built this functionality using Rockset on MongoDB data.

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Case Study: Zembula and Rockset Power Real-Time Marketing Email Personalization

Low-ops and cost-effective, Rockset is helping Zembula scale our next 100x growth.

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Case Study: How Rockset Made Me a Day Three Hero at Sounding Board

From Rockset trial to usable and reportable real-time information in just three days.

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Case Study: How Dimona Built a Real-Time Inventory Management System on Rockset

Dimona needed a better technology solution, one that could handle massive data sets and query them fast.

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Case Study: Rockset Enables Real-Time Operational Analytics in Hardware Manufacturing for PCH

Rockset delivers ad hoc complex queries within seconds, a huge improvement over the one-hour latency PCH was seeing before.

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Case Study: Complementing DynamoDB with Rockset for Real-Time IoT Analytics at 1NCE

Thanks to Rockset, 1NCE is able to provide customers with fast and valuable insight into their data

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Case Study: Real-Time Insights Help Propel 10X Growth at E-Learning Provider Seesaw

Rockset, along with DynamoDB, Hightouch, and Retool, enabled Seesaw to obtain actionable, real-time insights that helped grow their e-learning platform.

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Case Study: Powering Customer-Facing Dashboards at Scale Using Rockset with PostgreSQL at DataBrain

Learn how Rockset’s PostgreSQL integration helped DataBrain scale smoothly as its production data size and query volume exploded.

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Case Study: Fast and Simple — Building Rich Patient Dashboards for Speech Therapists with Rockset

Rockset is used to power interactive visualizations of the rehabilitation data of speech-impaired patients for their speech therapists and other caregivers.

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Case Study: Bringing Real-Time Analytics to Construction Logistics at Command Alkon

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.

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Case Study: Sequoia Capital — Why We Moved from Elasticsearch to Rockset

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.

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Case Study: Ritual’s Move to Real-Time Analytics to Personalize the Multivitamin Experience

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.

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Case Study: Rumble’s Real-Time Leaderboards Empower Users to Lead Healthier Lifestyles

Learn how Rockset powers Rumble's real-time leaderboards, which serve to motivate its users to keep active.

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Case Study: Matter Uses Rockset to Bring AI-Powered Sustainable Insights to Investors

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.

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Case Study: eGoGames Esports Platform Uses Rockset for Real-Time Analytics on Gaming Data

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

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Case Study: StoryFire - Scaling a Social Video Platform on MongoDB and Rockset

Learn how StoryFire uses Rockset to index data from their transactional MongoDB database to achieve performance and scale.

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Case Study: Fleet Management System – An End-to-End Streaming Data Pipeline

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

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Case Study: Standard Cognition Uses Rockset to Deliver Data APIs and Real-Time Metrics for Vision AI

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

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Case Study: FULL Uses Rockset with DynamoDB for Live Dashboard to Manage Remote Workforce

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

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Case Study: Decore Uses Rockset for Search & Analytics on DynamoDB

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

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Case Study: Implementing Real-Time IoT Analytics Simply and Efficiently - An MIT Smart City Project

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

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Case Study: Fynd Uses Kafka and Rockset to Respond to E-Commerce Consumer Behavior in Real Time

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

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Case Study: The Path to Better Pollution Forecasting Goes Through Nested JSON

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