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Josh Nakka's Case Study page
Saves $20k per month with hypertenancy architecture on MotherDuck
- Saves $20k on Amazon Athena and Glue spend
- Achieves per-customer compute isolation and granular scaling
- Runs 14x faster queries on customer-facing datasets
Josh Lichti's Case Study page

Improved analytics query performance from minutes to seconds
- Chose MotherDuck after finding ClickHouse, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery too complex and expensive
- Enabled lifetime course analytics for 16,000+ courses after MongoDB queries proved impossible
Jim O'Neill's Case Study page

Transformed 8-Hour Financial Data Pipelines into 8-Minute Workflows
- Launched AI-powered financial agents using MotherDuck's performance to enable real-time data exploration
- Migrated from Postgres to achieve 60x faster pipeline execution for complex financial data
Dominik Moritz's Case Study page

Achieved Interactive Browser Visualization of 18 Million Data Points
- Built a fully interactive data exploration app in just one hour
- Delivered sub-second query responses through hybrid local-cloud execution without managing any servers
Ravi Chandra's Case Study page

Unlocked Lightning-Fast Analytics and New Customer Capabilities
- Reduced analytical query times from minutes to seconds while eliminating traditional data warehouse costs
- Enabled new browser-based data experiences impossible with Postgres or Snowflake alternatives

