DataBrain Now Supports Amazon S3 and Parquet Integration

Transform your embedded analytics with DataBrain's direct S3 and Parquet integration. Deliver faster dashboards, reduce costs, and simplify your data architecture

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With the massive growth in customer data volumes, many SaaS platforms find themselves caught in a difficult position. Traditional embedded analytics approaches force engineering teams to build complex ETL pipelines, maintain separate analytics databases, and make painful compromises on performance as data grows. For data-intensive businesses like financial services platforms handling millions of transactions, this challenge becomes particularly acute.

Despite advances in cloud storage and data formats, most embedded analytics solutions still rely on architectures designed for smaller datasets. They push SaaS companies toward costly infrastructure upgrades rather than leveraging existing data investments. When in reality, businesses need to deliver powerful customer-facing insights without rebuilding their entire data stack.

That's why we're excited to announce DataBrain's direct integration with Amazon S3 and Parquet files. This new connection enables SaaS businesses to deliver faster embedded analytics experiences while simplifying their data architecture and reducing storage costs. Now you can provide responsive, interactive dashboards to your customers even when working with massive datasets—empowering them with insights that keep them engaged with your product and drive long-term retention.

Why This Integration Matters for Data-Intensive SaaS Applications

Many SaaS businesses struggle with the same analytics challenges. As data volumes grow, dashboards slow down. Engineering teams spend too much time building and maintaining complex ETL pipelines. Storage costs keep climbing as you duplicate data across systems. These issues become particularly acute for companies handling millions of rows of data.

Financial services platforms face this problem constantly. Imagine trying to visualize transaction ledgers with millions of entries, or providing customers with interactive reports on their account activity. Without the right infrastructure, these dashboards either load painfully slowly or require expensive, specialized databases.

The same challenges apply to healthcare analytics, e-commerce platforms tracking customer journeys, and marketing tools analyzing campaign performance. As your data grows, traditional approaches to embedded analytics become increasingly difficult to sustain.

What Amazon S3 and Parquet Bring to the Table

Amazon S3 provides virtually unlimited, cost-effective storage that scales as your business grows. Many SaaS applications already use S3 for data storage, making it a natural extension of existing infrastructure.

Parquet takes things further by organizing data by columns instead of rows. This seemingly small difference improves analytics performance in several important ways:

  • Parquet files store similar data together, enabling better compression and reducing storage requirements.
  • When querying data, Parquet lets you access only the specific columns needed instead of scanning entire datasets, dramatically speeding up dashboard performance.
  • The format also handles complex nested data structures well, making it suitable for sophisticated analytics requirements.

By connecting DataBrain directly to Parquet files in S3, we've eliminated the need for additional databases or complex ETL processes. Your application can write data to S3 in its normal workflow, and DataBrain reads it directly from there—creating a simpler, more efficient analytics pipeline.

How is this integration beneficial for your SaaS business?

For data-intensive SaaS businesses, this integration delivers several concrete benefits:

Simplified Data Architecture with Minimal Transformation

Financial platforms dealing with ledger data, transaction histories, and account information can now store this data directly in S3 without extensive transformations. This approach eliminates costly ETL pipelines and reduces duplicate storage needs.

A wealth management platform previously spent 15+ hours each week maintaining ETL jobs to transform transaction data for analytics. After switching to S3/Parquet with DataBrain, they automated this process completely, freeing up engineering resources for product development.

Faster Visualization Even with Massive Datasets

The columnar structure of Parquet makes even large datasets accessible for near real-time analysis.

Multi-Tenant Data Organization Made Simple

One of the biggest advantages for multi-tenant SaaS applications is S3's natural folder structure. By organizing client data in separate S3 folders or buckets, you can:

  • Maintain complete data isolation between customers
  • Simplify compliance with data residency requirements
  • Scale individual client storage independently
  • Keep security boundaries clean and well-defined

Getting Started with the S3/Parquet Integration

Setting up efficient analytics for financial or high-volume data involves these key steps:

  1. Organize your data in Parquet format: Most modern data tools like Apache Spark, Pandas, or Databricks can export to Parquet format. For financial data, consider partitioning by date, account ID, or transaction type.
  2. Structure your S3 storage: Create a logical folder hierarchy that supports your multi-tenant requirements and access patterns. For example

”/clients/{client_id}/transactions/{year}/{month}/”

  1. Configure secure access: Set up appropriate IAM roles with read-only access to your data. This follows security best practices by limiting access to only what's needed.
  2. Connect DataBrain to your S3 buckets: In your DataBrain settings, you'll find the new S3/Parquet connector. Enter your bucket information and credentials, and you're ready to start building dashboards.

The entire setup process can typically be completed in a day or two, depending on the complexity of your data structure.

The Future of Embedded Analytics for Data-Intensive SaaS

This integration represents an important evolution in how SaaS companies can deliver embedded analytics to their customers. By leveraging the scalability of S3 with the performance advantages of Parquet, even the most data-intensive applications can provide fast, responsive analytics experiences.

For financial services and other businesses dealing with large volumes of data, this approach offers a more sustainable path to embedding analytics—one that scales with your business without requiring constant re-engineering as data volumes grow.

Ready to see how the S3/Parquet integration can transform your embedded analytics? Book a demo today to explore how DataBrain can help your SaaS business deliver better insights to customers, even when dealing with millions of rows of data.

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