Cloud Computing: MetricaDB wants to tie data together for frustrated analysts
June 12, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: David Meyer.
As a company these days, it’s way too easy to find your data spread across a wide variety of cloud services. And when it comes to tying that information together in a meaningful way, the result can be pretty confusing if you don’t have a data infrastructure team to join the dots.
That’s the problem that David Crawford is trying to fix with his cloud analytics startup MetricaDB, one of our Structure 2013 LaunchPad finalists. It’s a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool for individual analysts who don’t care whether the data is held in a NoSQL database or behind a Salesforce or Google Analytics API – they just want to deal with it in one place…
Crawford’s a one-man band at the moment and the 8-month-old MetricaDB is a bootstrapped affair, but it seems pretty effective for such an early product (albeit a product that’s already evolved from simply enabling SQL queries against MongoDB data). After signing up, you click on the different SaaS products you use to gain a view on your customer – Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Salesforce, Stripe and so on – and end up with a SQL console that puts all that data in straightforward tables. Then you can run SQL queries (MetricaDB is built on Postgres) or what have you and export the results to Excel…
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