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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

AltexSoft

Kafka can continue the list of brand names that became generic terms for the entire type of technology. Similar to Google in web browsing and Photoshop in image processing, it became a gold standard in data streaming, preferred by 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. What is Kafka? What Kafka is used for.

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Comparing ClickHouse vs Rockset for Event and CDC Streams

Rockset

Streaming data feeds many real-time analytics applications, from logistics tracking to real-time personalization. Event streams, such as clickstreams, IoT data and other time series data, are common sources of data into these apps. Flink, Kafka and MySQL.

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Elasticsearch or Rockset for Real-Time Analytics: How Much Query Flexibility Do You Have?

Rockset

However, Elasticsearch has several limitations that make it less suitable when it comes to running more complex analytical queries. Rockset, on the other hand, provides full-featured SQL and an API endpoint interface that allows developers to quickly join across data sources like DynamoDB and Kafka.

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Handling Out-of-Order Data in Real-Time Analytics Applications

Rockset

Explosion in Streaming Data Before Kafka, Spark and Flink, streaming came in two flavors: Business Event Processing (BEP) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). Many (Kafka, Spark and Flink) were open source. Rockset not only continuously ingests data, but also can “rollup” the data as it is being generated.