TeraDB Cloud

E-commerce & Retail

E-commerce & Retail Data Analytics Solutions

Drive Sales, Reduce Costs, and Personalize Experiences with Real-Time Insights

TeraDB Cloud empowers retailers to analyze billions of transactions, optimize inventory, and deliver hyper-personalized shopping experiences—all while reducing infrastructure costs by 60% with open-source speed and flexibility.

Key Challenges in E-commerce & Retail Analytics

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Real-Time Inventory Management

Synchronizing stock levels across warehouses, stores, and marketplaces.

Database

Personalization at Scale

Serving 1M+ product recommendations/sec with <50ms latency.

Data sources

Cart Abandonment

Recovering lost sales by analyzing drop-off points in real time.

Real Time

Omnichannel Analytics

Unifying data from web, mobile, POS, and IoT devices.

Compliance & Security

Peak Traffic Handling

Scaling infrastructure for Black Friday/Cyber Monday surges without downtime.

Unstructured

Unstructured and Uncompressed Data

Different Data Sources provide data in unstructured or Uncompressed form.

Technical Use Cases for E-commerce & Retail

Real-Time Executive

Real-Time Inventory Synchronization

Challenge

Prevent overselling with sub-second stock updates across 100+ locations.

Solution

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    Ingest POS/Kafka streams into ClickHouse using ReplicatedMergeTree for atomic updates.

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    Compute global stock counts with Materialized Views and sync to RediSearch for <10ms API lookups.

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    Trigger ElasticSearch alerts for low-stock SKUs and automate reorder workflows.

Ad-Hoc Analysis

Personalized Product Recommendations

Challenge

Boost conversion rates with dynamic, real-time recommendations.

Solution

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    Track user behavior (clicks, cart adds) in ClickHouse, train collaborative filtering models (PyTorch), and deploy as ClickHouse ML UDFs.

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    Cache recommendations in RediSearch using vector similarity for instant retrieval.

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    A/B test strategies with ElasticSearch’s ranking evaluation tools.

Forecasting

Cart Abandonment Analysis

Challenge

Identify why 70% of shoppers abandon carts and trigger recovery campaigns.

Solution

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    Analyze session logs (scroll depth, payment errors) in ClickHouse with SQL window functions to detect friction points.

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    Segment users in real time (e.g., "abandoned after promo code failure") and sync segments to Braze/Klaviyo via Kafka connectors.

Real-Time Executive

Dynamic Pricing Optimization

Challenge

Adjust prices in real time based on demand, inventory, and competitor data.

Solution

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    Scrape competitor prices (Python) and ingest into ClickHouse alongside sales data.

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    Train reinforcement learning models (TensorFlow) to optimize pricing, deploy via ClickHouse ML.

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    Push price updates to Shopify/WooCommerce APIs with <100ms latency using RediSearch-cached results.

Ad-Hoc Analysis

Omnichannel Customer Journeys

Challenge

Unify web, app, and in-store interactions into a single customer profile.

Solution

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    Merge CDC streams (PostgreSQL), mobile app events (Kafka), and IoT data (RFID) into a ClickHouse data lake.

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    Use ElasticSearch’s cross-cluster search to correlate interactions across channels.

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    Power dashboards with metrics like CLV and omnichannel conversion rates.

How TeraDB Cloud Solves E-commerce & Retail Challenges

Blazing-Fast

Blazing-Fast Analytics:

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    ClickHouse: Process 1M+ events/sec for real-time inventory and pricing.

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    RediSearch: Deliver recommendations and search results in <10ms.

Advanced Detection

Cost Efficiency:

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    Auto-Scaling: Spin up GPU instances during peak sales, scale down post-event.

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    Cold Storage: Archive historical data to S3/Glacier at 1/10th the cost of traditional warehouses.

Seamless Integrations:

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    Prebuilt Connectors: Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

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    BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud): Deploy TeraDB Cloud on your AWS/GCP VPC for hybrid retail workflows.

Real Time

Security & Compliance:

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    PCI-DSS Compliance: Encrypt payment data with BYOK (AWS KMS/GCP Cloud HSM).

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    RBAC: Restrict access to PII (e.g., only inventory teams view stock levels).

Expert Support

24/7 Expert Support:

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    ClickHouse Certified Engineers: Optimize query performance for time-series sales data.

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    ElasticSearch Specialists: Fine-tune product search relevance.

Compressed and Structured Data Storage

Compressed and Structured Data Storage

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    Compress data up to 90% for less storage cost.

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    Structure data at ingestion to minimise the query execution time.