Case Study: Pinterest achieves real-time advertising analytics at massive scale with Imply

Pinterest and Druid Optimizing Advertising for 400 Million+ Visitors

Pinterest needed a real-time analytics platform that could give advertisers flexible slices of their data at massive scale. Their existing HBase-based approach couldn’t support the kinds of queries advertisers were requesting, so Pinterest turned to Imply’s Apache Druid-based solution for Archmage, its real-time analytics application.

Imply helped Pinterest implement Druid to power high-speed, low-latency ad analytics with near-real-time ingestion. The results were significant: Pinterest was ingesting 500,000 events per second, getting 99% of queries answered within 250 ms, and moving data from event to ingest in under 1 minute.

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Filip Jaros

Software Engineer