Case Study: SIRCA achieves lightning-fast, scalable financial data analytics with Databricks

SIRCA - Customer Case Study

SIRCA Technology provides big data storage, management, and analytics solutions for the financial services sector, powering researcher access to large-scale market and company financial data. They struggled with legacy infrastructure that made data ingestion and reporting extremely slow (hours per query), high DevOps overhead, single-machine analysis workflows (RStudio/SAS), several petabytes of hard-to-access data, and disparate datasets that required time-consuming third‑party merging.

Databricks delivered a unified, fully managed analytics platform—Databricks Runtime, interactive workspaces, automated job scheduling, and autoscaling—that became the backbone of SIRCA’s customer-facing application. As a result, SIRCA can quickly ingest and serve data at scale, support collaborative self‑service analysis via notebooks, elastically scale compute (e.g., 2 to 10 nodes), and shift focus away from DevOps to higher‑value analytics, substantially improving application performance.

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