CelerData’s mission is to shorten the gap between raw data and business value for enterprises. The company aims to make enterprise analytics simpler and more efficient. A primary goal for CelerData is to support and provide resources to the open-source StarRocks project, a high-performance analytical database. CelerData also focuses on helping businesses accelerate their analytics performance.
CelerData is recognized in the market for its high-performance data lake analytics, which is powered by StarRocks. The company’s solutions are designed for real-time analytics. CelerData has a reputation for enabling enterprises to simplify their data architecture and, in some cases, eliminate the need for a traditional data warehouse. Customer feedback frequently highlights the platform’s fast query performance and the quality of its support team.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
CelerData provides a unified analytics platform designed for real-time enterprise needs, built upon the open-source StarRocks project. CelerData’s core offerings are engineered to deliver high-performance analytics on data lakehouses. The platform’s advanced query engine is capable of supporting thousands of concurrent users. A key competitive advantage for CelerData is its ability to simplify data architecture and improve the timeliness of lakehouse analytics by allowing queries across both streaming and historical data in real-time. CelerData integrates with open table formats such as Apache Hive, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake.
Products and Services
CelerData’s product portfolio is centered around its powerful real-time analytical engine. The company offers two primary commercial products that are built on the StarRocks MPP SQL database technology.
- CelerData Enterprise: This is an on-premises deployment of CelerData’s platform. CelerData Enterprise is designed for businesses that require robust, self-hosted real-time analytics capabilities. It includes additional utilities and enterprise-grade security features.
- CelerData Cloud: This is a managed cloud service that provides the power of StarRocks in a flexible, scalable cloud environment. CelerData Cloud is available as a “Bring Your Own Cloud” (BYOC) model, which allows it to be deployed within a customer’s own VPC for enhanced security and control.
Target Customers
CelerData targets modern, data-driven enterprises that need to derive insights from their data in real time to accelerate digital transformation. The company’s solutions are designed for organizations that are leveraging data lakehouse architectures and require high-performance analytics without the complexity of traditional data warehousing solutions. CelerData’s platform is utilized by market-leading brands across various industries. These customers benefit from CelerData’s ability to provide a unified analytics engine that offers significantly better performance at a lower cost compared to other solutions on the market. The platform enables these enterprises to generate critical new insights from their data, empowering them to make faster, more informed business decisions.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplaces
CelerData offers its services on major cloud platforms through direct marketplace listings and a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) deployment model.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace
CelerData has a presence on the AWS Marketplace with two primary offerings. “CelerData Enterprise” is the cloud version of the StarRocks MPP database. “CelerData Cloud BYOC” is a managed offering that deploys StarRocks within a customer’s own AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), allowing the customer to retain control over their cloud resources and data.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace
CelerData is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace through its “CelerData BYOC” offering. This solution allows customers to run demanding workloads directly on their data lakehouse, aiming to simplify data architecture.
- Google Cloud
While not available as a direct listing on the Google Cloud Marketplace, CelerData provides a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) integration with Google Cloud. This requires customers to configure their Google Cloud environment, including setting up a VPC network, subnets, and specific firewall rules to deploy a CelerData cluster.
Key People
- Co-Founder & CEO: James Li
- Co-Founder & COO: Andy Ye
- Co-Founder & CTO: Alvin Zhao
- Head of Strategy: Li Kang
- Operations Lead: Alyssa King
- Marketing Lead: Tyler Wishnoff
- Engineering Lead: Kaisen Kang
- Engineering Lead: Dorian Zheng
- Support Lead: Allen Li
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Menlo Park, California.
- Number of Employees: Approximately 81.
- Annual Revenue: Approximately $15 million.
- Parent Company: None.
- Subsidiary Companies: None.
- Publicly Listed: No.
Analyst Recognition
Based on publicly available information, CelerData has not been included in technology categories by the analyst groups Gartner, Forrester, IDC, or Everest Group.
