Enterprise Data Infrastructure

Distributed Data Warehouse: Solve Data Gravity & Slash Cloud Costs

Replace centralized data warehouses with distributed architecture. Cut cloud costs by 58%, reduce query latency by 94%, and process petabytes at the edge.

Real-World Impact

Fortune 500 Retail Chain: $1.77M Annual Savings

1,300 stores | 100M daily events | 3.5 PB data | 58% cost reduction with 16× faster queries

Before Expanso

Centralized Cloud Warehouse

Monthly Cost $358,155
Egress: $13,500 Compute: $42,000 Storage: $291,655 Networking: $11,000 Total: $358,155
Query Latency 3.5s
Daily Data Transfer 5 TB/day
Active Storage 3.5 PB
After Expanso

Distributed Edge Warehouse

Monthly Cost $211,120
Egress: $1,620 Edge Compute: $62,000 Storage: $122,500 Orchestration: $25,000 Total: $211,120
Query Latency 220ms
Daily Data Transfer 600 GB/day
Active Storage 3.5 PB
$1,770,420/year
Total Annual Savings (58% cost reduction, 88% less data moved, 16× faster queries)
The Challenge

Centralized Warehouses Create Massive Problems

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Unsustainable Costs

Every GB moved to the center burns money. Scaling vertically makes it worse.

Data Gravity Costs

Moving 5 TB/day incurs $13,500/month in egress fees at $0.09/GB. For a 1,300-store retailer, that's just transfer costs-before compute or storage.

Fortune 500 retailers: $10K-$50K/month in egress alone

Exponential Scaling

Growing from 1,000 to 2,000 stores doesn't double warehouse costs-it triples them. Vertical scaling gets exponentially expensive.

Storage costs: $83/TB centralized vs $35/TB distributed
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Performance & Latency

Round-trips to distant data centers slow decisions and frustrate users.

High Query Latency

Queries from 1,300 locations travel thousands of miles to central data centers. Store managers wait 3-5 seconds for inventory dashboards.

Average query latency: 3.5 seconds (16× slower than edge)

Stale Insights

Store-level analytics lag by hours. By the time central dashboards update, inventory issues or customer trends have already impacted sales.

Typical data freshness: 4-12 hours behind real-time
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Compliance & Complexity

Regional laws and global operations create legal exposure and operational overhead.

Data Sovereignty Violations

GDPR, CCPA, and regional laws require data to stay local. Centralizing PII and transaction data from international stores creates legal exposure.

Fines up to €20M or 4% annual revenue

Multi-Region Duplication

Operating 1,300 stores across continents requires duplicate infrastructure and complex replication strategies to meet latency SLAs.

2-3x infrastructure costs for global coverage

Centralized Warehouses
Create Bottlenecks

Every query requires expensive network traversal to central location

Data transfer costs grow linearly with business success

Response times degrade as concurrent users and data volume increase

Regional teams wait for centralized resources during peak hours

Architecture Challenge
Distributed Solution
Single Point of Failure
Resilient distributed processing across locations
Network Latency on Every Query
Sub-second local query response
Linear Cost Scaling
Predictable per-node economics
Vendor Lock-in
Cloud-agnostic, works with existing tools
Complex Capacity Planning
Horizontal scaling without architectural changes

Expanso vs Traditional Solutions

Traditional Stack
The Expanso Advantage
Data Noise Reduction
Minimal or Manual Filtering
Checkmark Built-in, Automated Filtering
Time to Insights
Slow
Checkmark Real-Time
Stack Flexibility
Rigid, Vendor-Locked
Checkmark Flexible, works with nearly every vendor
Cost Efficiency
Increases rapidly with the amount of stored data
Checkmark Up to 80% Cost Reduction

Data Noise Reduction

Traditional Stack:
Minimal or Manual Filtering
Expanso:
Checkmark Built-in, Automated Filtering

Time to Insights

Traditional Stack:
Slow
Expanso:
Checkmark Real-Time

Stack Flexibility

Traditional Stack:
Rigid, Vendor-Locked
Expanso:
Checkmark Flexible, works with nearly every vendor

Cost Efficiency

Traditional Stack:
Increases rapidly with the amount of stored data
Expanso:
Checkmark Up to 80% Cost Reduction

Distributed Architectures Across Industries

Where Expanso Helps
Multi-Region Retail Analytics
Real-time inventory and sales insights per region
IoT Time-Series Analysis
Process sensor data at edge, aggregate centrally
Financial Transaction Processing
Comply with data residency while enabling global analytics
Healthcare Research Networks
Query patient data locally, share aggregated insights
Manufacturing Quality Control
Analyze production data per facility in real-time
Telecommunications Network Analytics
Process call records regionally, aggregate for planning

Better Performance, Lower Costs

Benefit

  • 10x Faster Queries
    10x Faster Queries
  • 85% Less Data Transfer
    85% Less Data Transfer
  • Horizontal Scaling
    Horizontal Scaling

What You Get

  • Process queries at the source, not after expensive network hops
    Process queries at the source, not after expensive network hops
  • Scale by adding nodes, not upgrading centralized infrastructure
    Scale by adding nodes, not upgrading centralized infrastructure
  • Works with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift - no lock-in
    Works with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift - no lock-in
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