Sida Shen

Sida Shen is a product manager for CelerData. He's spent years in the analytics and data engineering space and is passionate about helping developers simplify their real-time analytics workloads.
Blog Post by Sida Shen

Why Apache Druid Can't Handle Modern Real-Time Analytics

Apache Druid is known for its real-time data ingestion and querying capabilities, especially under high concurrency scenarios. However,...

CelerData X DBTA: Go Pipeline-Free With Real-Time Analytics

While normalization stands as a foundational pillar of relational databases, the unsatisfactory JOIN performance of today's real-time O...

Ditch Denormalization in Real-Time Analytics With JOINs

*The content of this blog post is based on our recent webinar, "Ditching denormalization in Real-time analytics: How StarRocks Delivers...

Denormalizing Tables To Avoid JOINs: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives

As the needs of your business grow and change, so too will your database design approach. For many, this inevitably leads to denormaliz...

Answering Questions About StarRocks vs. ClickHouse

One of the most common solutions our customers compare us to in their evaluation process is ClickHouse, and that's no surprise. After a...

From Denormalization to Joins: Why ClickHouse Cannot Keep Up

*The content of this blog post is based on our recent webinar, "From Denormalization to Joins: Why ClickHouse Cannot Keep Up". ClickHou...

What Is User Behavior Analytics?

Understanding how users interact with your platforms and products is paramount to success. It's no surprise then that user behavior ana...

What Is Real-Time Analytics?

Real-time data has become a critical component of modern enterprise operations, and increasingly businesses are seeking scalable OLAP d...

Why Achieving Real-Time User-Facing Analytics Is Hard

The ability to extract timely insights from data separates the winners from the rest, and this is especially true for real-time user-fa...