Battle of the Analytics Engines

We rank OLAP and analytics engines using every public benchmark—messy or not—powered by ELO ratings. See the winners, track the history, and add your own results to shape the leaderboard.

Who’s the Best Data Analytics Engine? Let’s Find Out.

Who’s the Best Data Analytics Engine? Let’s Find Out.

Benchmarks lie. But if we collect all of them, a clearer picture emerges.

We use ELO rankings—the same system used in chess—to pit analytics and OLAP engines against each other, track their wins, and see who really dominates.

How it works:
1. We grab every public performance test (TPC-DS, TPC-H, SSB Wide Table, and more—even the messy ones).
2. We turn results into “matches” — sometimes 1-on-1, sometimes 3- or 4-way battles.
3. The ELO system updates the rankings after every match.

Get Involved:
- See the full leaderboard and historical performance.
- Sort and explore engines by data workload: TPC-DS, TPC-H, SSB Wide Table or others.
- Got results? Publish them online and email atwong@alumni.uci.edu — we’ll add them (even backdated ones) to the rankings.

The game is on.

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Albert Wong

Albert Wong

Albert is a Sales Engineer and DevRel leader with a unique blend of deep technical knowledge and a proven go-to-market mindset. He has a track record of success at both VC-backed startups and major technology companies.

Albert is available to speak at meetups and conferences on ELO analytics engine rankings and offers advisory consulting for analytics engine selection and strategy.

  • focused on measurable business impact
  • developer with deep data and infrastructure experience
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Dr. Georg

Dr. Georg

Georg is a Senior data expert at Magenta and a ML-ops engineer at ASCII. He is solving challenges with data. His interests include geospatial graphs and time series. Georg transitions the data platform of Magenta to the cloud and is handling large scale multi-modal ML-ops challenges at ASCII.

  • data architecture
  • solving challenges with data
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Want to dig deeper?

Book a 30-minute consultation to learn our methodology and how the rankings were built.

In this session, we’ll move beyond raw performance metrics—breaking down the strengths and trade-offs of each engine and unpacking the ELO ranking system. You can even bring your own unpublished benchmarks to see how they shift the results.
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