PropelData

PropelData is a comprehensive, developer-first data platform engineered to simplify and accelerate the development of high-performance, customer-facing analytics and AI-powered features. Founded by ex-Twilio engineers, PropelData addresses the significant challenges of building scalable and insightful data products from scratch. It leverages the power of Serverless ClickHouse®, the world's fastest real-time analytics database, to deliver blazing-fast queries at any scale. This allows development teams to bypass the complexities of cluster management, DevOps, and uptime monitoring, focusing instead on delivering value to their customers.

The platform is designed as a complete toolkit that streamlines the entire data workflow, from ingestion to visualization. It enables companies to unify batch and streaming data, transform it in real-time, and serve it through highly optimized APIs. This approach eliminates the need for clunky, embedded iframes from traditional BI tools, allowing for the creation of analytics experiences that feel native to the application's look and feel.

How to use PropelData

PropelData offers a structured and intuitive workflow for building data applications:

1. Ingest Data: Begin by connecting your data sources. PropelData supports a wide range of ingestion methods, including unifying batch and streaming data. You can connect sources like Kafka, Snowflake, Amazon S3, or send JSON events directly via webhooks. Integrations with Fivetran and Airbyte are also available.
2. Transform and Model: Once data is ingested, use Propel's powerful Materialized Views to clean, join, aggregate, and enrich your data in real-time. This prepares the data for analysis. Following transformation, you model the data by defining Metrics, which represent key performance indicators (KPIs) for your product. These metrics become the building blocks for insightful dashboards and reports.
3. Develop and Query: Query your data using familiar tools. PropelData provides a secure GraphQL API, a PostgreSQL-compatible SQL connector, and a standard SQL API. Developers can use the language they already know, along with tools like React Query Hooks. Crucially, PropelData's multi-tenant access policies ensure that end-users can only query and view their own data, providing robust security for SaaS applications.
4. Visualize and Embed: Build the front-end experience without backend dependencies. PropelData offers an open-source UI Kit with React components like <TimeSeries/>, <Counter/>, and <Leaderboard/>. These components can be easily styled with any CSS library to match your brand, allowing you to deploy pixel-perfect, native-feeling dashboards directly within your application.

Core Features of PropelData

• Serverless ClickHouse®: A fully managed, always-on, and instantly auto-scaling ClickHouse service that eliminates the need for infrastructure management.
• Blazing-Fast Query APIs: Highly optimized GraphQL and SQL APIs designed for common analytical access patterns, enabling sub-second query performance.
• Embeddable UI Kit: A library of open-source React components for building beautiful, native-looking dashboards and analytics features without using iframes.
• Real-time Data Transformation: Use Materialized Views to perform real-time data cleaning, joining, aggregation, and enrichment as data is ingested.
• Metric Layer: Define and manage key business metrics centrally, ensuring consistency across all your analytics features.
• Multi-Tenant Security: Built-in row-level and column-level access controls to securely serve analytics to multiple customers from a single data source.
• Broad Data Ingestion: Connect to various data sources, including Kafka, S3, Snowflake, OpenAI, Fivetran, and Airbyte.
• Enterprise-Grade Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant, with a dedicated Trust Center for security details.

Use Cases for PropelData

PropelData is versatile and can power a wide array of data-driven use cases:

• Customer-Facing Analytics: Deliver rich, in-product analytics dashboards that help your customers understand their usage and gain insights. As demonstrated by Courier, companies can build enterprise-grade embedded analytics in a fraction of the time.
• SaaS Dashboards: Equip your SaaS product with robust dashboards for monitoring, reporting, and operational insights.
• Product Usage Metering: Accurately track and report on how customers are using your product, which is essential for billing, resource allocation, and product development.
• LLM Usage Analytics: Monitor the usage, cost, and performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) integrated into your applications.
• IoT and Operational Insights: Analyze high-volume, real-time data from IoT devices to provide operational intelligence and monitoring.
• Self-Service Custom Reporting: Empower your customers to build their own reports and explore their data without needing your engineering team's intervention.

Advantages of PropelData

By using PropelData, development teams gain significant advantages. It dramatically reduces the time and engineering resources required to launch sophisticated data features, turning a years-long project into a matter of sprints. The serverless architecture ensures scalability and reliability without operational overhead. The developer-first approach, with its focus on APIs and modern frameworks like React, leads to a superior developer experience and higher-quality end products. Ultimately, PropelData enables companies to deliver the robust, elegant analytics their customers expect, creating a more valuable and sticky product.

Pricing and Plans

PropelData offers a flexible, freemium pricing model designed to scale with your needs.

• Free Tier: $0/month. This plan is perfect for getting started and includes $15 in monthly usage credits, which covers approximately 50,000 queries, 1 GB of data writes, and 10 GB of storage. No credit card is required, and you can use this tier forever.
• Pay As You Go: Starting at $0/month, you only pay for what you use beyond the free tier. Pricing is based on three components:
  • Queries: $0.03 - $0.08 per GB of data read, depending on the selected query performance tier ("Propeller").
  • Writes: $0.05 per GB of data written.
  • Storage: $0.30 per GB per month (billed per GB-hour).
• Enterprise Plan: Custom pricing for larger organizations requiring volume discounts, a 99.99% SLA, dedicated support, audit logs, and other enterprise features. Contact sales for a quote.

An optional "Teams" add-on is available for $450/month, providing dedicated support, unlimited environments, SSO, and more.