Sida Shen

Sida Shen is a contributor to the StarRocks project and a product manager at CelerData. As an engineer with a background in building machine learning and big data infrastructures, he oversees the company’s market research while working closely with engineers and developers across the analytics industry to tackle challenges related to big data and AI.
Blog Post by Sida Shen

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...

The Open Data Lakehouse: Towards Democratized Data Analytics

The future looks bright for open data lakehouses, but why is that? It's not just some marketing term, but a real, intelligent approach ...

How Expensive is Real-Time Analytics?

Real-time analytics challenges often fall into three buckets: speed, volume, and data freshness. These challenges, however, are often s...

How Real-Time Analytics Works: A Step-by-Step Breakdown

How does real-time analytics work? How do we seamlessly transition from generating data to making data-driven decisions in a matter of ...