Video: How Rill powers fast, exploratory dashboards with ClickHouse
Blog post from Rill
On June 4, 2024, ClickHouse hosted a meetup featuring presentations from companies like OpenAI and Rill Data, among others. Mike from Rill Data delivered a lightning talk discussing how Rill's operational BI platform leverages ClickHouse to power fast and flexible dashboards for business users in sectors such as e-commerce and advertising. Rill, spun out of Snapchat, is designed to provide real-time data analysis and differs from traditional BI by focusing on speed and adaptability, supporting ad-hoc exploratory analysis. Mike emphasized the scalability and simplicity of ClickHouse, which has become a versatile engine capable of supporting both business intelligence and observability use cases. Rill's approach is to use ClickHouse to create an immersive BI tool that prioritizes metrics over tables, allowing for rapid data exploration and visualization. The presentation included a live demo showing how Rill can quickly analyze vast data sets, exemplified by a New York taxi data set, demonstrating its capability for swift data navigation and analysis, enhancing the experience beyond traditional BI tools.