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What is Real-time Data Ingestion? Use cases, Tools, Infrastructure

Knowledge Hut

This is where real-time data ingestion comes into the picture. Data is collected from various sources such as social media feeds, website interactions, log files and processing. This refers to Real-time data ingestion. To achieve this goal, pursuing Data Engineer certification can be highly beneficial.

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Is Apache Kafka a Database? With ksqlDB, Most Definitely

Confluent

description: With real-time data ingestion, streaming, and storage capabilities, Apache Kafka can be used as a database with ksqlDB.

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Druid Deprecation and ClickHouse Adoption at Lyft

Lyft Engineering

Druid at Lyft Apache Druid is an in-memory, columnar, distributed, open-source data store designed for sub-second queries on real-time and historical data. Druid enables low latency (real-time) data ingestion, flexible data exploration and fast data aggregation resulting in sub-second query latencies.

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Running Unified PubSub Client in Production at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Jeff Xiang | Software Engineer, Logging Platform Vahid Hashemian | Software Engineer, Logging Platform Jesus Zuniga | Software Engineer, Logging Platform At Pinterest, data is ingested and transported at petabyte scale every day, bringing inspiration for our users to create a life they love.

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MongoDB CDC: When to Use Kafka, Debezium, Change Streams and Rockset

Rockset

CDC enables true real-time analytics on your application data, assuming the platform you send the data to can consume the events in real time. Options For Change Data Capture on MongoDB Apache Kafka The native CDC architecture for capturing change events in MongoDB uses Apache Kafka.

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Data Engineering Weekly #168

Data Engineering Weekly

link] RevenueCat: How we solved RevenueCat’s biggest challenges on data ingestion into Snowflake A common design feature of modern data lakes and warehouses is that Inserts and deletes are fast, but the cost of scattered updates grows linearly with the table size.

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Data Engineering Weekly #163

Data Engineering Weekly

[link] Superlinked: Vector DB Comparison Vector databases are a new class designed to efficiently store and query high-dimensional vector representations of data, like embeddings from LLMs. The article compares all the VectorDB available in the market.