Interactive analytics at scale

1 · Walmart Labs · July 17, 2020, 7:22 p.m.
IntroductionAt WalmartLabs, we needed a platform to enable our business users to make smart data driven decisions by performing interactive analysis of huge datasets. This use-case requires an OLAP system that could process large chunks of data interactively. In order to do so, we decided to leverage ClickHouse (an open-source column-oriented DBMS), that could run analytical queries on billions of rows of data in sub seconds.However, setting up and maintaining a database cluster that stores and ...