How does Rill Data achieve its fast query speeds and interactive dashboard experience?
Rill Data includes its own embedded in-memory database, co-locating data and compute. This architecture allows queries to return in milliseconds, enabling instant pivoting, slicing, and drilling down into data.
What is Rill Data's approach to dashboard development and governance?
Rill Data embraces a 'BI-as-code' philosophy, allowing users to define and govern all BI assets as SQL and YAML code within a GitHub project. This enables local development, version control with Git workflows, and deployment to Rill Cloud.
How does Rill Data help reduce cloud data warehouse costs?
Rill Data aggregates and serves metrics from its separate in-memory database, rather than directly querying the cloud data warehouse. This redirects costly analytics workloads and ensures that Rill only stores and charges for data actively used in a dashboard.
What kind of data transformation capabilities does Rill Data offer?
Rill Data provides 'last-mile ETL' functionality using SQL. This allows users to join, transform, and aggregate data from dozens of different data sources directly within the platform.
What are the key differences between Rill Data and traditional BI tools like Tableau or Looker?
Unlike traditional BI tools, Rill Data focuses on operational BI with an embedded in-memory database for sub-second performance and a metrics-first philosophy that automatically creates visualizations. It also emphasizes BI-as-code with GitHub integration and offers last-mile ETL capabilities.
What is the storage model for Rill Cloud, and how does it affect pricing?
Rill Cloud offers storage-based pricing, with the Teams plan including 10GB of storage. The pricing is usage-based, meaning you pay for the amount of data you view in a Rill dashboard, with unlimited storage available in the Enterprise plan.