Case Study: Orb achieves real-time billing observability and saves engineering time with Imply

How Apache Druid and Imply Helped Orb Scale Their Usage-Based Billing Platform

Orb, a company providing a modern pricing and billing platform, initially struggled with scalable data ingestion and query performance using PostgreSQL as their customer base and data volumes grew. They needed a database solution specialized in time-series data and real-time analytics without adding excessive engineering complexity. They turned to the vendor Imply for a solution.

By implementing Imply's managed services for Apache Druid, Orb gained a highly scalable database with native Kafka integration for streamlined event streaming. This solution allowed them to enhance their billing services and extend into financial reporting. The results were significant, with Imply's support saving Orb's engineering team 20-30 hours per month on workload scaling and providing the ability to support customers with millions of events per second.

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Kshitij Grover

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