Introducing Data Portal: Enterprise Data Management Built for Real-Time Speed

Data Portal is a new offering in StarTree Cloud that brings enterprise-grade reliability and control to real-time data operations. It addresses the fundamental mismatch between traditional data management practices, built for batch processing, and the demands of real-time analytics. 

Note: Data Portal will subsume the capabilities of StarTree Cloud’s Data Manager.

The real-time challenge: Why traditional approaches fail

Modern enterprises face an exponential increase in data complexity, with real-time ingestion rates now reaching tens of millions of messages per second. Traditional batch-oriented tools—designed for predictable overnight processing—cannot meet the demands of millisecond-scale analytics. Success in real-time data management requires maintaining peak performance and security while handling dynamic data structures, continuous schema evolution, and uninterrupted data streams. This represents a fundamental shift in how organizations must approach their data architecture.

The gap between batch-oriented architectures and real-time requirements is evident across key areas of data management:

Bridging this gap has long been a barrier to adoption, forcing organizations to accept compromises in either performance or control. Meanwhile, data teams face expanding table sizes, soaring ingestion rates, and a widening skills gap.

Data Portal in StarTree Cloud: Enterprise data management for real time

Data Portal in StarTree Cloud addresses these challenges, bringing the reliability and control enterprises require to the dynamic world of real-time analytics. Powered by machine learning and advanced automation capabilities, Data Portal helps organizations maintain enterprise-grade security and reliability without sacrificing speed.

Key features

Performance Manager: Replaces manual query optimization with ML-driven recommendations and guided index selection. Performance Manager analyzes query patterns to provide one-click optimizations, delivering up to 4x faster queries while balancing storage costs.

Schema Evolution: Enables zero-downtime schema updates in continuous data flows, allowing users to add or modify columns, fields or indexes while the system runs. Ensures continuous query availability during structural changes.

Data Backfill: Automates the detection and filling of data gaps, enabling seamless reloading of data from past events without impacting real-time operations. Maintains consistency across datasets through an automated workflow.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Delivers fast, fine-grained permission enforcement across the data plane. Simplifies user administration while maintaining strict security standards, even when data is ingested and analyzed in sub-second windows.

Business impact

Across industries, from financial trading to digital advertising, organizations face mounting pressure to make decisions in real-time. When milliseconds matter, even brief delays can result in missed opportunities, fraud incidents, or lost customers. Data Portal transforms these challenges into competitive advantages by combining enterprise controls with real-time processing: 

Intelligent Automation: Transform from manual query optimization cycles to instant, ML-powered query performance improvements

Always-On Operations: Move from scheduled maintenance windows to continuous, zero-downtime evolution

Competitive Advantage: Shift from end-of-day processing to real-time insights and instant decision-making

The business costs of delayed insights continue to rise. Fraud needs to be stopped instantly, inventory decisions can’t wait for overnight batch processing and customers expect personalized experiences in the moment. With Data Portal, these use cases become not just possible, but practical to implement at enterprise scale.

Get started with Data Portal

Data Portal is available in private preview for StarTree Cloud customers and prospects, with general availability planned for Q1 2025. The service is accessible across major cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, enabling organizations to implement real-time analytics capabilities regardless of their cloud infrastructure.

Ready to experience the power of real-time analytics without compromising on enterprise controls? Book a demo of Data Portal to see these features in action, or if you have specific needs or want to speak with a member of our team.