Why Mutability Is Essential for Real-Time Data Analytics

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Successful data-driven companies like Uber, Facebook and Amazon rely on real-time analytics. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruba' To deliver real-time analytics, companies need a modern technology infrastructure that includes these three things: A real-time data source such as web clickstreams, IoT events produced by sensors, etc. A platform such as Apache Kafka/Confluent, Spark or Amazon Kinesis for publishing that stream of event data. A real-time analytics database capable of continuously ingesting large volumes of real-time events and returning query results within milliseconds.

For today’s real-time analytics, there are many additional reasons why we need mutability, including data enrichment and backfilling data.

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