Case Study: Sheetz saves money and doubles analytics capacity with Actian Vectorwise

Actian Helps Fast Growing US Convenience Store Chain to Save Money and Take Action on Big Data

Sheetz, a family-owned convenience store chain with more than 406 locations across six states, needed a cost-effective way to analyze growing volumes of operational data to optimize costs, maintain quality, and ensure a consistent customer experience. As data volumes continued to rise, the chain sought to replace a more expensive platform so it could analyze more history and act on Big Data without escalating infrastructure costs.

Actian’s Vectorwise was deployed—requiring only small changes to an ABF reporting app and schema handling—enabling Sheetz to expand analysis from one year to two years (about three billion rows) and to accommodate anticipated data growth over the next 2–3 years. The solution delivered record query performance (commercial deployments have shown up to 70x gains), annual cost savings, and a platform that supports additional BI tools, automation with Action Apps, and further Actian products.

Sheetz

Jarrid Magalich

Technical Services Manager