If you're looking to do something similar at your company, I work at Interana[1], and we're aiming to provide near-real-time insight into analytics; Both slice-and-dice real-time queries and session-stitched funnels.<p>The founders were the guys who built Scuba, and we're taking a somewhat different approach (mostly driven by differences in scale). We're not quite at the second scale delivery times, and are based on more classical logfile rotation and aggregation mechanisms to get our raw data, and then an efficient sharding layer to get it into our columnstore.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.interana.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.interana.com/</a>