Tinybird

Tinybird

Real-time data analytics APIs built on ClickHouse

About Tinybird

Tinybird is a real-time analytics backend that lets developers build data-intensive features and APIs on top of streaming data without managing infrastructure. Ingest millions of events per second from Kafka, webhooks, S3, or direct API calls, then query that data in real-time using SQL and publish the results as low-latency API endpoints. The entire workflow is code-based and version-controlled: define data sources, write SQL transformations as pipes, and deploy API endpoints, all from your git repository using the Tinybird CLI. Each API endpoint is automatically optimized, cached, and documented with an OpenAPI spec. Tinybird is built on ClickHouse, an OLAP database designed for analytical queries on massive datasets, but abstracts away all the complexity of running and tuning ClickHouse clusters. Common use cases include real-time dashboards, user-facing analytics, usage-based billing, personalization engines, anomaly detection, and operational monitoring. The platform handles time-series data, aggregations, and complex joins across billions of rows with sub-second query times. The free tier includes 10GB of storage and 1,000 API requests per day. For developers building data products or adding analytics features to existing applications, Tinybird eliminates months of data infrastructure work.

Key Features

  • Real-time data ingestion at millions of rows per second
  • SQL-based data transformations
  • Auto-generated REST API endpoints from SQL queries
  • Built on ClickHouse for fast analytical queries
  • Materialized views for pre-aggregation
  • Git-based version control for data pipelines
  • Generous free tier with 10GB of storage

Pros & Cons

What we like

  • Incredibly fast for analytical queries on large datasets
  • SQL-first approach is accessible to most developers
  • API endpoints are generated automatically
  • Free tier is generous for prototyping and small projects
  • Excellent documentation and developer experience

Room for improvement

  • Specialized tool, not a general-purpose database
  • Learning curve for ClickHouse SQL dialect
  • Can get expensive with high query volumes
  • Limited ecosystem compared to traditional data warehouses

Best For

Building real-time analytics dashboardsCreating user-facing analytics features in SaaS productsProcessing and querying event streams at scaleBuilding recommendation engines with real-time dataMonitoring and observability data pipelines

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