Data teams creating analytics applications are faced with increasing demand from event data and streaming sources like Apache Kafka.
The question, then, isn’t if you will need to include stream data into your analytics apps, but whether your database is ready for it. And therein lies the issue. Every database says they handle streams. What they mean by that is that they can connect to streaming sources like Kafka. But after that, then what?
The question, then, isn’t if you will need to include stream data into your analytics apps, but whether your database is ready for it. And therein lies the issue. Every database says they handle streams. What they mean by that is that they can connect to streaming sources like Kafka. But after that, then what?