Tag: real-time analytics
Real-Time Data Streaming, Kafka and Analytics, Part 2: Going Beyond Pure Streaming
Data transaction streaming is managed through many platforms, with one of the most common being Apache Kafka. In our first article in this data streaming series, we delved into the definition of data transaction and stre Read more…
Real-Time Data Streaming, Kafka, and Analytics Part One: Data Streaming 101
The terms “real-time data” and “streaming data” are the latest catch phrases being bandied about by almost every data vendor and company. Everyone wants the world to know that they have access to and are using th Read more…
Druid Developer Ramps Cloud-Native Approach
A real-time analytics startup founded by the authors of the Apache Druid database have raised additional funding as they ramp up product development based on the open-source data store. Imply said it has raised $30 mi Read more…
Getting Ready for Real-Time Decisioning
There is no end in sight to the growing amounts of data in today’s digital world. By 2020, analysts project there will be 6 billion smartphones and 50 billion telematics devices as an ever-increasing number of people a Read more…
Inside Hitachi Vantara’s Very Ambitious Data Agenda
FPGAs and object storage systems. NVMe storage and ML model management. IoT edge computing and converged server infrastructure. It would be a big understatement to say that Hitachi Vantara has a lot going on, but it also Read more…
Inside Fortnite’s Massive Data Analytics Pipeline
With 125 million players around the world, Fortnite has set a new standard of success for massively multi-player games. But pulling together all the servers, databases, and data pipelines to manage 92 million events per Read more…
Streaming SQL for Real-Time Analytics
Streaming analytics is moving into the mainstream as more enterprises capitalize on the technology to gain greater efficiency, competitiveness, and profitability. In fact, the streaming analytics market will grow to $13. Read more…
Apache Flink Gets An SQL Client
The latest release of the Apache Flink framework introduces the capability to execute exploratory SQL queries on data streams from a new SQL client, which will open the processing framework to a new class of users. Ap Read more…
How Disney Built a Pipeline for Streaming Analytics
The explosion of on-demand video content is having a huge impact on how we watch television. You can now binge watch an entire season's worth of Grey's Anatomy at one sitting, if that suits your fancy. For a media giant Read more…
How Netflix Optimized Flink for Massive Scale on AWS
When it comes to streaming data, it's tough to find a company operating on a more massive scale than Netflix, which streams more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies -- per day. Netflix captures billions of pi Read more…
What Will AI’s Biggest Contribution to Healthcare Be?
Artificial intelligence is already improving many aspects of our lives, including how we drive, how we socialize, and what we buy. It also has the potential to transform healthcare in variety of ways, but the biggest imp Read more…
2018 Predictions: Opening the Big Data Floodgates
The pace of innovation in big data today is exceeded only by the actual volume of data generated. So how will the industry respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by huge pipes of data that will be opened up in Read more…
5 Ways Analytics Drives Cyber Monday Sales
Today is expected to be the busiest online shopping day in history, with more than $6 billion changing electronic hands. So how are businesses poised to take advantage of all that spending? One big factor for retailers t Read more…
Attunity Relishes Role as Connective Tissue for Big Data
In the big data world, there are a few patterns that repeat themselves over and over again. One of those is the need to move data from one place to another. For data integration tool maker Attunity, that pattern has prov Read more…
Managing Streaming Flink Apps Is About To Get Easier
Apache Flink has emerged as a powerful platform for building real-time stream processing applications. However, not every organization has the resources to go all in on Flink the way Netflix, Uber, and Alibaba have. That Read more…
ETL Slowing Real-Time Analytics, Survey Finds
ETL, the extract, transfer and load tool used to move data between databases or to data warehouses, is struggling to keep pace with growing demand for real-time data analysis, resulting in operational inefficiencies and, Read more…
The Real-Time Future of ETL
We're on the cusp of a huge uptick in data generation thanks to the IoT, but most of that data will never be landed in a central repository or stored for any length of time. To get a handle on this morass of data, enterp Read more…
Kafka ‘Massively Simplifies’ Data Infrastructure, Report Says
What's behind the rapid rise in Apache Kafka? According to a new survey of Kafka users by Confluent, the commercial venture behind Kafka, the data pipeline's capability to "massively simplify" the IT infrastructure of en Read more…
Sisense Adds Machine Learning to BI Platform
Machine learning continues to make serious inroads in big data markets, most notably in the automation of tedious business intelligence tasks. Among the emerging applications is discerning and highlighting patterns in en Read more…