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Case Study: Sovrn moves from a 24-hour delay to subsecond real-time data with StarTree Cloud

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Sovrn
Industry
AdTech
Challenge
Reporting lagged 24-48 hours across hundreds of millions of daily events
Headline result
Sovrn replaced a 24-48 hour reporting delay with subsecond analytics

Key results

Subsecond
Data latency
from a prior 24-48 hour delay
180M+
Daily view events served
500M
Daily users on platform
2,700
Publishers on platform

The challenge

Sovrn's AdTech platform served roughly 500 million daily users and 2,700 publishers, but its reporting pipeline lagged 24 to 48 hours behind live activity. The company needed near real-time analytics with custom reporting for diverse customers, without taking on the operational burden of self-managed infrastructure.

The solution

Sovrn adopted StarTree Cloud on AWS with a Bring Your Own Cloud deployment of Apache Pinot, using tiered storage to keep costs down while retaining queryable history. The platform serves subsecond analytics across 180+ million daily view events.

StarTree helps us at Sovrn focus on what our customers need to adapt to the changing AdTech market.

CP
Chris Prokopiak
Principal Software Engineer, Sovrn

The results, in context

Sovrn moved from a 24-48 hour reporting delay to subsecond data latency across 180 million daily view events, 10 million click events, and 1 million revenue events. Tiered storage lets the team retain data affordably while keeping it accessible for analysis.

Products used

StarTree StarTree CloudStarTree Apache Pinot