# Jethro

> Jethro (JethroData) is an enterprise software company that makes interactive business intelligence run fast on big data. Its index-based SQL engine sits between BI tools like Tableau, Qlik and MicroStrategy and data stored in Hadoop or Amazon S3, using full indexing, auto-cubes and result caching to return queries in seconds across tens of billions of rows and thousands of concurrent users - at Hadoop-scale cost and without manual data engineering.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Herzliya, Israel (US office: San Francisco, California)
- **Founders:** Eli Singer (Co-Founder & CEO), Ronen Ovadya (Co-Founder & COO), Boaz Raufman (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~50 employees
- **Products:** Jethro Engine, Full Indexing, Auto-Cubes, Result Cache, BI Tool Connectors
- **Notable:** Raised $12.6M total across Series A and Series B from Pitango Venture Capital and Square Peg Capital., Claimed up to 100x faster query performance than alternative SQL-on-Hadoop solutions via full indexing., Powered Tata Communications' operational-intelligence dashboard tracking roughly 2 billion daily service requests.

## Products & services

- **Jethro Engine** — An index-based SQL engine that accelerates BI on big data. It combines full automatic indexing, a columnar store, and standard ODBC/JDBC connectivity to deliver interactive query performance over data in Hadoop (HDFS) or Amazon S3.
- **Full Indexing** — Automatically indexes every column so queries read only relevant rows instead of scanning entire datasets - the core of Jethro's claimed up-to-100x speedup versus scan-based SQL-on-Hadoop engines.
- **Auto-Cubes** — Automatically detects repeated aggregation patterns and materializes them into small pre-built cubes, so dashboards hit a tiny cube instead of recomputing over raw data.
- **Result Cache** — Automatically caches query results so repeated or similar queries return instantly.
- **BI Tool Connectors** — Certified integrations with Tableau, Qlik and MicroStrategy plus generic ODBC/JDBC, allowing existing dashboards to run on Jethro with no application changes.

## Achievements

- Raised $12.6M total across Series A and Series B from Pitango Venture Capital and Square Peg Capital.
- Claimed up to 100x faster query performance than alternative SQL-on-Hadoop solutions via full indexing.
- Powered Tata Communications' operational-intelligence dashboard tracking roughly 2 billion daily service requests.
- Earned certified-partner status with both Hortonworks and Cloudera, plus a certified Tableau connector.
- Introduced Auto-Cubes (2016), automatically materializing aggregations to accelerate dashboards without manual cube design.

## Latest updates

- **2015-06** — Closed $8.1M Series B led by Square Peg Capital with existing investor Pitango to expand sales, marketing and product development.
- **2016-09** — Added Auto-Cubes to the Jethro Engine, automatically building small aggregation cubes to speed up dashboards.
- **2018-02** — Announced partnership with Information Builders to accelerate its analytics on big data.

## Links

- Website: https://jethro.io
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/jethro
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jethrodata
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=secprIbz4tY
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Jethrodata

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