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---
title: 'Analytics Buckets'
subtitle: 'Store large datasets for analytics and reporting.'
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<Admonition type="caution" title="This feature is in alpha">
Expect rapid changes, limited features, and possible breaking updates. [share feedback](https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/40116) as we refine the experience and expand access.
</Admonition>
Analytics buckets enable analytical workflows on large-scale datasets while keeping your primary database optimized for transactional operations.
## Why Analytics buckets?
Postgres tables are purpose-built for transactional workloads with frequent inserts, updates, deletes, and low-latency queries. Analytical workloads have fundamentally different requirements:
- Processing large volumes of historical data
- Running complex queries and aggregations
- Minimizing storage costs
- Preventing analytical queries from impacting production traffic
Analytics buckets address these requirements using [Apache Iceberg](https://iceberg.apache.org/), an open-table format specifically designed for efficient management of large analytical datasets.
## Ideal use cases
Analytics buckets are perfect for:
- **Data warehousing and business intelligence** - Build scalable data warehouses for BI tools
- **Historical data archiving** - Retain large volumes of historical data cost-effectively
- **Periodically refreshed analytics** - Maintain near real-time analytical views
- **Complex analytical queries** - Execute sophisticated aggregations and joins over large datasets
By separating transactional and analytical workloads, Supabase lets you build scalable analytics pipelines without compromising your primary Postgres performance.