Use cases_
Continuous analytics
Enable real-time data insights in your apps and platforms, and deliver actionable information directly to end-users.
Examples of continuous analytics
Retailers use continuous analytics to track inventory levels and sales data across stores, allowing them to quickly respond to changes in demand and adjust ordering and stock accordingly.
Manufacturers rely on continuous analytics to identify equipment problems, predict maintenance needs, and optimize production processes.
Product owners can use continuous analytics for sentiment analysis of customer reviews and social media feedback to better understand target markets and customize marketing campaigns.
Technical challenges
Data ingestion: Continuous analytics demands efficient handling of massive, fast-paced, and diverse data streams. This includes managing data quality issues, eliminating duplicates, and ensuring data integrity.
Scalability and performance: Real-time systems require horizontal and vertical scalability to accommodate sudden spikes in data volume or velocity. This necessitates infrastructure that can process large amounts of data rapidly, without compromising performance.
Data processing and transformation: Real-time data often requires processing and transformation to extract valuable insights. This involves tasks like data cleansing, aggregation, filtering, and feature engineering, which can be computationally intensive.
Latency: Continuous analytics demands minimal latency between data ingestion and insight generation. This means processing and analysis must occur in near-real-time, often within milliseconds or seconds.
Integration and interoperability: Continuous analytics involves integrating with various data sources, systems, and applications. Ensuring seamless integration, data consistency, and API compatibility is crucial.
Fault tolerance and high availability: Continuous analytics systems must be designed for fault tolerance and high availability to minimize downtime and data loss. This includes implementing redundancy, load balancing, and disaster recovery strategies.
Data accuracy and consistency: Ensuring data accuracy, freshness, and consistency across all user interfaces is an ongoing challenge in real-time analytics.
Why RisingWave?
RisingWave ingests and processes large volumes of high-velocity data from various sources such as messaging platforms and databases in real-time.
It offers robust connectors for popular data systems, enabling easy data input and output.
As a Postgres-compatible database, RisingWave works with many analytics tools through standard Postgres drivers.
RisingWave delivers results in milliseconds, using real-time materialized views that update continuously.
It efficiently performs operations like filtering, joins, and aggregates across multiple data sources.
New metrics can be set up with just one or two SQL queries.
RisingWave ensures all queries access the same version of data, guaranteeing correct and consistent results.
You can add new nodes as needed without system downtime.