Data Warehouse Caching Layer
When all your data lives in a cloud platform, every query comes with a price tag and a wait. The same working set gets queried hundreds of times a day, so the bill climbs with every read while query speed swings with how busy the platform is, making both cost and performance almost impossible to forecast. 3forge fixes that. It sits in front of the platform as an intraday caching layer, reading the data once and then serving it from memory all day, so every query after the first is instant and costs you nothing at the source.
The Challenge
Every Query Costs You Money and Time
Cloud data platforms bill by usage and run on shared compute, so every query costs both money and time. The cost lands on each read rather than on the data itself, and when recent data is read all day by hundreds of users and applications, the firm pays again for each read of data that has not changed. Query latency swings with platform load, so the heaviest, most valuable queries are both the most expensive and the least predictable to run.
Every query carries a cost
Usage-based pricing means each query against the platform is billed. Cost accrues on reads, not on storage, so the more the data is used the more it costs, even when the underlying data is identical.
Hot data is read again and again
The same recent dataset is queried hundreds of times a day across teams and applications. Each read is charged separately, so the firm pays repeatedly for a working set that changes little through the session.
Complex queries cost more
Heavy joins, scans, and aggregations consume more compute and bill higher. The most analytically valuable workloads are also the most expensive to run against the source.
Spend is hard to predict
Because cost tracks ad-hoc usage across hundreds of consumers, it cannot be projected cleanly in advance. Finance and engineering are left reacting to the bill rather than planning against a known number.
Queries are slow and unpredictable
Query times depend on how loaded the shared platform is and how heavy the query is, so the same dashboard can return in a second one moment and stall the next. Interactive, all-day use cannot rely on consistent latency from the source.
The 3forge Approach
Read Once, Serve All Day From Memory
3forge runs in front of the cloud data platform as an intraday caching layer. It reads the working set out of the platform once, into real-time in-memory tables backed by the column store. For the rest of the day, every user and application queries 3forge instead of the platform, in plain SQL, with results returned from memory at in-memory speed, regardless of how busy the platform is. Because the source is touched once rather than on every query, the per-query transaction cost disappears and spend becomes a known, fixed profile. And because 3forge distributes data to virtually any application through the Gateway, with native integration for Python, C++, ODBC, and more, those hundreds of consumers reach the caching layer through the interfaces they already use.
Key Capabilities
What You Can Build with 3forge
Read Once, Query All Day
Load the working set from the platform a single time into in-memory tables. Every query after that runs against 3forge, so the source is never charged for the same data twice.
Predictable Cost Profile
Replace usage-based billing that scales with every read with a fixed, known cost. Query spend stops tracking ad-hoc activity and becomes a number you can plan against.
High-Performance In-Memory SQL
Query the caching layer in standard SQL and get results back from memory at consistent, predictable latency, far faster than round-tripping to the cloud platform and unaffected by load on the source, with all of the execution efficiencies of the 3forge runtime.
Broad Access From Any Application
Serve the same data to App Engine applications and to virtually any external application through the Gateway, with native integration for Python, C++, ODBC, REST, and SQL.
Scales to Hundreds of Consumers
Fan out the same in-memory dataset to hundreds of users and applications at once. Adding consumers adds load to 3forge, not cost on the source.
Simple to Stand Up
Drop the caching layer in front of the existing platform with no change to how the data is stored. It is easy to install and easy to point consumers at, with the source left untouched.
Get started
Query all day. Pay once.
Book a 30-minute demo with a 3forge solutions engineer and see an intraday caching layer serving fast, consistent SQL to hundreds of consumers from memory, with no per-query cost on the source.