← All case studies

Tinybird × Audiense

Tinybird x Audiense: From $3K/month MySQL pain to 20x storage reduction

20x storage reduction (20 TB to under 1 TB)

Drowning in unscalable MySQL costs to delegating infra entirely

Members read free

Unlock the full breakdown

Enter your email to open every case study in the library: the full screenshot, why it works, and the one thing worth stealing. One email unlocks all of them.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Why it works

The case study earns credibility by anchoring every claim to a concrete before-state: a named dollar cost, a specific data volume, and a candid admission that the team nearly killed a core product feature. The mechanism is detailed enough to follow: Parquet export from MySQL, import into Tinybird, Materialized Views for pre-aggregation, Events API for streaming, parameterized SQL endpoints for the UI. The story sits between Efficiency (cost and storage down sharply) and New Capability (real-time streaming was not possible before), but the headline metrics all point downward, so Efficiency leads.

Steal this

Quantify the cost of inaction: the story explicitly names the alternative paths considered (Snowflake, time-series DBs, feature deprecation) and explains why each failed, making the vendor choice feel inevitable rather than lucky.

Full screenshot of Tinybird x Audiense: From $3K/month MySQL pain to 20x storage reduction Click to enlarge ↗
View the original on tinybird.co ↗

This is editorial commentary and curation. The case study, screenshot, and all metrics are Tinybird's published work; we link to the source and lead with our analysis.

  • Vendor Tinybird
  • Customer Audiense
  • Industry SaaS
  • Trigger MySQL cluster too expensive and too slow to scale further
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page