Performance improvements enhance customer and engineering experience
Today ClickHouse enables Katana to aggregate, query and present a coherent, unified view of data, both for internal use and for customers, through the Katana platform’s insights dashboards. Queries that once took up to an hour can now run in seconds, delivering insights in real time or near-real time. This architecture provides customers with faster, more intuitive dashboards and clearer visibility into inventory performance, significantly improving their day-to-day experience and supporting Katana’s reputation for reliability as the company scales.
These performance gains also translate into measurable business impact: on average, customers using Katana report a 21% increase in inventory turnover and a 60% increase in year-over-year sales, reflecting the value of real-time visibility and smarter, more responsive planning.
Recently, Aiven for ClickHouse underwent a major revamp that has amplified these gains even further. The new architecture delivers dramatically improved query performance, greater scalability, and even better price efficiency, empowering Katana to do more with less. By introducing features like Dynamic Disk Sizing and object storage integration, Aiven has made ClickHouse both more powerful and more cost-effective, enabling Katana to handle ever-growing data volumes without overprovisioning or compromising on speed.
With Aiven ensuring seamless operation across the Aiven Platform, Katana can dedicate its energy to innovation and delivering business value. Freed from infrastructure management, Katana can redirect resources toward product development, and rather than maintaining a large DevOps team, it has a smaller, more focused engineering team.
“Aiven has long been a mission-critical partner for us. Kafka is the source of truth for our data, and everything depends on it. Adding ClickHouse has taken it a step further. Everything just works. That kind of reliability is rare, and Aiven delivers it effortlessly. We’re very happy to have a partner we can trust,” says Kungla.