Real-time Analytics is the discipline of applying logic and mathematics to data as it is generated or received (i.e., "in motion") to extract insights and enable immediate action. Unlike traditional batch analytics, which processes data accumulated over a period (e.g., hours, days), real-time analytics aims to provide results with very low latency, typically within seconds or even milliseconds of an event occurring.
Feature | Real-time Analytics | Batch Analytics |
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Data Scope | Unbounded, continuous streams | Bounded, historical datasets |
Latency | Milliseconds to seconds | Minutes, hours, or days |
Processing | Continuous, incremental | Periodic, full reprocessing |
Data Volume | Can be high velocity, but often smaller per computation | Typically very large datasets |
Use Cases | Monitoring, alerting, immediate decisioning, personalization | Historical reporting, trend analysis, complex modeling |
Technology | Stream processing engines (e.g., RisingWave, Flink) | Data warehouses, Spark (batch mode), MapReduce |
RisingWave is specifically designed to facilitate real-time analytics:
By combining these capabilities, RisingWave empowers organizations to build sophisticated real-time analytics applications that deliver timely insights from their streaming data.