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SlicingDice

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by SlicingDice (Simbiose Ventures) · since 2016

Brazilian serverless analytics database-as-a-service with SQL and an HTTP insert API; no longer operating.

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discontinued. Service appears defunct: SDKs last updated Dec 2018, API/console hosts no longer resolve, and the domain now hosts a generic blog. Use ClickHouse Cloud, BigQuery or Tinybird.

Overview

SlicingDice was a hosted analytical database from the Sao Paulo startup holding Simbiose Ventures, sold as a serverless data warehouse: you pushed events through a REST insert API, queried with SQL or a JSON query API, and paid per gigabyte stored with queries included. It targeted product analytics and dashboards for teams that did not want to run their own warehouse, and shipped official client SDKs for several languages. The company was still promoting it at SXSW in 2019, but its SDKs stopped being updated in December 2018, the API and console hosts no longer resolve, and slicingdice.com now serves a generic WordPress blog. Treat it as discontinued.

Analytics (OLAP)Real-time analyticsData warehouse

Strengths & trade-offs

Strengths

  • +Per-GB pricing with queries included made dashboard-heavy workloads predictable (historically)
  • +SQL plus a simple HTTP insert API with no servers to manage

Trade-offs

  • −Service no longer operates
  • −Hosted-only and proprietary, so there was no self-hosted fallback
  • −Little public documentation survives

Great for

  • +Historical reference only
  • +Example of per-GB serverless warehouse pricing

Think twice for

  • −Any production workload: the service is gone

Capabilities

Native or official first-party support · 2 of 25 tracked

✓Durable persistence
✓Streaming ingest
–Transactions
–Joins
–Secondary indexes
–Full-text search
–Vector search
–Geospatial
–JSON
–Change data capture
–Triggers
–Stored procedures
–Materialized views
–TTL / expiry
–Pub/Sub
–Columnar storage
–In-memory
–Compression
–Encryption at rest
–Role-based access
–Time travel
–Branching
–Online schema changes
–Offline sync
–Runs in WebAssembly

Scale & consistency

Comfortable data size
Medium · ≤ 10 TB
Horizontal scaling
Native
Multi-region
No
Transactions
None
Consistency
Eventual
Schema
Flexible
Architecture
Serverless, Distributed
Query languages
SQL, SlicingDice JSON query API

Historically a multi-tenant hosted cluster; no longer operated.

Deployment

Self-hosted Vendor-managed cloud Serverless Embedded Edge Kubernetes operator

Ecosystem

apis & protocolsREST API
client languagesJavaScript, C#, Ruby

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Google's serverless, pay-per-query data warehouse built on Dremel and Colossus.

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TinybirdColumnar / OLAP12.6

Managed ClickHouse platform that turns SQL pipes into low-latency, versioned HTTP APIs.

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Apache PinotColumnar / OLAP29.9

Real-time OLAP store from LinkedIn for user-facing analytics at very high query rates.

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FireboltColumnar / OLAP7.8

Low-latency analytical database with a Postgres-compliant dialect, as cloud service or self-hosted Core.

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PostgreSQL-compatible MPP warehouse that runs on its appliance, any cloud or Kubernetes.

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SlicingDice FAQ

What is SlicingDice?

SlicingDice is a columnar / OLAP database by SlicingDice (Simbiose Ventures), first released in 2016. SlicingDice was a hosted analytical database from the Sao Paulo startup holding Simbiose Ventures, sold as a serverless data warehouse: you pushed events through a REST insert API, queried with SQL or a JSON query API, and paid per gigabyte stored with queries included. It targeted product analytics and dashboards for teams that did not want to run their own warehouse, and shipped official client SDKs for several languages. The company was still promoting it at SXSW in 2019, but its SDKs stopped being updated in December 2018, the API and console hosts no longer resolve, and slicingdice.com now serves a generic WordPress blog. Treat it as discontinued.

Is SlicingDice open source?

No. SlicingDice is proprietary, closed-source software.

Does SlicingDice support ACID transactions?

No. SlicingDice does not provide ACID transactions; its consistency model is eventual.

Does SlicingDice scale horizontally?

SlicingDice scales horizontally out of the box, with built-in sharding or partitioning. It is comfortable at medium scale (≤ 10 TB).

What is SlicingDice best for?

SlicingDice is a strong fit for historical reference only and example of per-GB serverless warehouse pricing. Think twice for any production workload: the service is gone.

What are the best alternatives to SlicingDice?

Common alternatives to SlicingDice include ClickHouse, Google BigQuery, Tinybird, Apache Pinot and Firebolt. The right choice depends on your workload, scale and hosting; WhichDB's smart match ranks them against your requirements.

Is SlicingDice still maintained?

SlicingDice is discontinued. Service appears defunct: SDKs last updated Dec 2018, API/console hosts no longer resolve, and the domain now hosts a generic blog. Use ClickHouse Cloud, BigQuery or Tinybird.

How popular is SlicingDice?

SlicingDice has little measurable public adoption today, so it ranks near the bottom of the WhichDB Score.