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woahtoday at 3:59 AM1 replyview on HN

No idea what these guys do exactly but their tagline says "Feldera's award-winning incremental compute engine runs SQL pipelines of any complexity"

So it sounds like helping customers with databases full of red flags is their bread and butter


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gz09today at 4:44 AM

> it sounds like helping customers with databases full of red flags is their bread and butter

Yes that captures it well. Feldera is an incremental query engine. Loosely speaking: it computes answers to any of your SQL queries by doing work proportional to the incoming changes for your data (rather than the entire state of your database tables).

If you have queries that take hours to compute in a traditional database like Spark/PostgreSQL/Snowflake (because of their complexity, or data size) and you want to always have the most up-to-date answer for your queries, feldera will give you that answer 'instantly' whenever your data changes (after you've back-filled your existing dataset into it).

There is some more information about how it works under the hood here: https://docs.feldera.com/literature/papers