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Potentially ignorant question: who is the intended persona for this product? Is this for people that are serving "data products" to end users but don't want to own and manually configure their caching layer? And the product is magic provided by some automated rollup tables and materialized views based off of the data it sees being used to most? Maybe I'm overthinking..

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PolyScale founder here. Assuming you are referring to PolyScale (rather than ClickHouse), the product is aimed at devs who dont want to build data distribution and caching. You can connect your database and then have global low-latency reads, without writing code. Useful for multi-region deployments, serverless/microservices/FaaS as well as simply scaling your origin db.

ClickHouse is used for computing Observability metrics within the UI. The automated caching algorithms do not use ClickHouse in any way. You can read more about the automation here: https://docs.polyscale.ai/how-does-it-work#caching-protocol or try the live demo here: https://playground.polyscale.ai/

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