BigData Boutique

BigData Boutique is a consultancy that helps engineering teams design, build and run large-scale data and search systems. Its engineers cover both data at rest in large volumes and fast-moving streaming data, and the firm is an AWS data and analytics partner.

What BigData Boutique offers

• Search consulting — Elasticsearch and OpenSearch design, relevance tuning, migrations and ongoing support.
• Streaming and processing — Apache Flink and Spark work for real-time and batch processing.
• Data platforms — data lakes and warehouses, including Databricks and ClickHouse builds.
• Architecture and pipelines — pipelines for ad-hoc analysis, machine learning at scale and large event volumes.
• Production support and cost optimisation — developer support and tuning to keep existing platforms efficient.
• AI search — retrieval-augmented generation and embedding-based search built on OpenSearch and AWS services.

Who it works with

Clients quoted include Pipl, OpenTable, Particular Software, Yotpo, Lukka and Boar's Head. Projects named range from a large Elasticsearch cluster migration to Amazon OpenSearch Service to a Databricks data lake with infrastructure as code.

The firm also offers a free review of a client's data platform as an entry point.

Key facts

• Partnership: AWS data and analytics partner
• Technologies: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Flink, Spark, Databricks and ClickHouse