StarTree is a cloud-based software company that allows business customers to derive advanced insights on real-time and historical data. With StarTree, companies of all sizes can tie together trends in their business operations such as frequency of active users, user growth, revenue growth, or anomalous activity—and achieve real-time insights across vast amounts of live data. With the ever-increasing demand for real-time analytics for internet based businesses.
StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of popular open-source technologies like Apache Pinot and ThirdEye. Apache Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore built to deliver scalable real-time analytics with low latency. The technology was built by engineers at LinkedIn and Uber and is designed to scale up and out with no upper bound. This team built and operated the real-time analytics cluster at LinkedIn and Uber, supporting hundreds of customer facing applications including:
- Who Viewed My Profile; Talent Insights; Member Search Appearances etc. that support 500M users at LinkedIN
- Restaurant Manager (Merchant Analytics) Dashboard that supports 1000s of Merchants at Uber Eats
Pinot can ingest from batch data sources (such as Hadoop HDFS, Amazon S3, Azure ADLS, Google Cloud Storage) as well as stream data sources (such as Apache Kafka, Spark, etc).