Case Study: GetYourGuide achieves 60% faster ETL and 50% lower operational costs with Databricks

Powering amazing vacations with data and ML

GetYourGuide is a leading online marketplace for sightseeing tours and experiences that wanted to use data and AI to deliver a personalized booking experience. Their data engineering struggled to keep up with scale—processing over 600 GB per day across 50,000 activities—with primary ETL jobs taking more than five hours and single-node processing creating serious scalability bottlenecks.

Migrating to Databricks on AWS gave GetYourGuide a unified, fully managed analytics platform with automated cluster management and collaborative notebooks, enabling production-ready pipelines and exploratory work in one environment. The move cut ETL times by 60%, reduced IT operational costs by over 50%, improved cross-team collaboration, and unlocked ML-driven recommendation and relevance features that accelerated time-to-insight and business growth.

GetYourGuide

David Mariassy

Data Engineer