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Why Real-Time Analytics Requires Both the Flexibility of NoSQL and Strict Schemas of SQL Systems

Rockset

Similarly, databases are only useful for today’s real-time analytics if they can be both strict and flexible. Traditional databases, with their wholly-inflexible structures, are brittle. So are schemaless NoSQL databases, which capably ingest firehoses of data but are poor at extracting complex insights from that data.

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Handling Bursty Traffic in Real-Time Analytics Applications

Rockset

Databases could just buffer, ingest and query data on a regular schedule. Moreover, analytical systems and pipelines were complementary, not mission-critical. Analytics wasn’t embedded into applications or used for day-to-day operations as it is today. Offloading complex analytics onto data applications.

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The Role of Database Applications in Modern Business Environments

Knowledge Hut

Database applications have become vital in current business environments because they enable effective data management, integration, privacy, collaboration, analysis, and reporting. Database applications also help in data-driven decision-making by providing data analysis and reporting tools.

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

Rockset

So why are their analytics still crawling through in batches instead of real time? It’s probably because their analytics database lacks the features necessary to deliver data-driven decisions accurately in real time. The issue is how the downstream database stores updates and late-arriving data.

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SQL and Complex Queries Are Needed for Real-Time Analytics

Rockset

Limitations of NoSQL SQL supports complex queries because it is a very expressive, mature language. That changed when NoSQL databases such as key-value and document stores came on the scene. Complex SQL queries have long been commonplace in business intelligence (BI). As a result, the use cases remained firmly in batch mode.

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Five Ways to Run Analytics on MongoDB – Their Pros and Cons

Rockset

MongoDB is a top database choice for application development. Developers choose this database because of its flexible data model and its inherent scalability as a NoSQL database. MongoDB wasn’t originally developed with an eye on high performance for analytics.

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Why Mutability Is Essential for Real-Time Data Analytics

Rockset

He was an engineer on the database team at Facebook, where he was the founding engineer of the RocksDB data store. Successful data-driven companies like Uber, Facebook and Amazon rely on real-time analytics. Real-time analytics is not. One of the technical requirements for a real-time analytics database is mutability.