BigBasket uses a lakehouse with Iceberg on AWS for fast deliveries in India

In the fast-paced world of quick commerce, every minute counts. The ability to deliver fresh products in minutes depends not only on efficient logistics but also on a data infrastructure that enables real-time decision-making. Companies like BigBasket, India's largest online supermarket, have shown that modernizing data architecture is key to maintaining customer trust and competitive advantage. Instead of relying on traditional data warehouses with batch processing that delivered information from the previous day, they have adopted a lakehouse architecture on the cloud, combining the best of data lakes and data warehouses. This has allowed them to achieve data availability in 3-5 minutes, recover from failures in minutes instead of hours, and scale to over 35,000 reports and dashboards. The key lies in cloud services like AWS, open table formats like Apache Iceberg, and orchestration tools that ensure consistency and schema evolution. But not all organizations have the internal team to tackle such a complex transformation. This is where having a specialized technology partner makes the difference. At Q2BSTUDIO, we offer cloud services for AWS and Azure that allow us to design and implement custom lakehouse architectures tailored to each business's needs. Our team integrates business intelligence services like Power BI to visualize data in real time, and we apply artificial intelligence to optimize demand forecasting and delivery routes. Additionally, we develop custom applications that connect transactional and user behavior sources, and deploy AI agents capable of automating picking and replenishment processes. Cybersecurity is also a priority: we protect each data layer with granular controls and continuous monitoring. This way, companies can focus on their growth without worrying about technical complexity. BigBasket's experience teaches us that data modernization is not a luxury but a necessity to compete in the immediacy economy. With the right approach and the right tools—from custom software to artificial intelligence solutions for businesses—any organization can build a robust and scalable data lakehouse. At Q2BSTUDIO, we accompany our clients at every step, from architecture design to production deployment, ensuring that decision-making is faster, more accurate, and aligned with business objectives.