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The Real-Time Future of ETL

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...

SQLstream comes to the Kafka Summit in NYC

San Francisco |  April 26th, 2017 – SQLstream, the leading streaming analytics and data wrangling technology provider, today announced their...

Actionable Data Insider | Strata edition

We’re back from Strata in San Jose, and it’s clear that he evolution of streaming technologies is beginning to catch...

Strata 2017 Wrap-up: 7 Trends We Can’t Afford to Ignore

Once again we made it down to San Jose, ready for some  smarts, some networking, and some bragging because, you...

5 Ways to Measure if Fast Analytics on Hadoop Are Fast Enough

With Strata Hadoop around the corner and continuous coverage of data lakes, SQL as a preferred language for streaming, and...

Why we need SQL for data stream processing and real-time streaming analytics

There was a lot of interest and discussion at the recent Strata in San Jose around real-time analytics. Seems to be the hot topic, and many have been blogging about it since, including why SQL is a good idea for real-time streaming analytics. I would certainly agree with that sentiment, on the need for SQL for streaming analytics. There are many reasons as to why, some technical such as as the power of the language, and some more business-oriented such as the suitability of SQL platforms for reliable enterprise deployments, better performance and significant lower overall cost when compared with open source and proprietary SQL-like platforms.

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