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StarTree Cloud vs. Elasticsearch for Real-Time Analytics
Say goodbye to indexing challenges, data scalability issues, and high operational costs with StarTree Cloud, the leading Elasticsearch alternative for OLAP.
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6 Reasons to Switch from Elasticsearch to StarTree Cloud
Elasticsearch is a great search engine, but it wasn’t designed to be an analytics database. StarTree Cloud, the ultimate Elasticsearch alternative for real-time analytics, powered by Apache Pinot is the leading platform providing unmatched performance and ease of use.
High concurrency (QPS)
Unlock your data for internal & external users by supporting extremely high query per second (100,000+ QPS)
Low-Latency Aggregations at Scale
Maintain performant aggregations against petabytes of data, with latencies measured in milliseconds.
Fast & Flexible Indexing
Leverage multiple indexing options, including the star-tree index for fast and efficient query results
Support for Upserts
Query data within milliseconds of ingestion to ensure results are accurate and up to date.
Reduced costs
Pinot enables users to save significantly on infrastructure spend with more efficient memory and column storage.
Better Tiered Storage Solution
Get results in seconds, not minutes with tiered storage designed for fast analytics. Query data within milliseconds of ingestion to ensure results are accurate and up to date.
Uber fully replaced Elasticsearch with Apache Pinot for its time-sensitive real-time analytics. By migrating, they saved more than $2M on infrastructure costs per year and reduced their overall data size by 120TB. The team also saw a 50% reduction in database cores and reduced page load time from 14 seconds to less than 5 seconds. With Apache Pinot, Uber can do real-time upserts and get query results from 1.5PB of data with <100ms P99 latencies.
More comparisons from the field
Companies like Uber, Cisco WebEx, and Uniqode have made the transition from Elasticsearch to Apache Pinot. The results are always impressive: faster queries, simpler pipelines, improved reliability, and dramatically lower infrastructure costs.
A database ideal for real-time analytics – at speed and scale.
Apache Pinot is a real-time OLAP database built for ultra-fast analytics on high-volume data. It supports sub-second queries on billions of rows, even with high cardinality and concurrency — ideal for working with telemetry, logs, streaming business data and more.
StarTree Cloud delivers a fully managed Pinot experience with enterprise-grade security, automated scaling, and seamless integrations (Kafka, Flink, BI tools, etc.). It gives your team the power to build real-time dashboards, alerts, and APIs on live data — without compromising performance or reliability.
If you’re tracking fast-moving data and need millisecond-level insights at scale, Pinot + StarTree can help you move faster and operate smarter.
