Streaming Analytics

Abstract

Streaming analytics is the application of analytic operations to streaming data. We begin the chapter with a short history of streaming analytics, followed by a review of streaming fundamentals. In the third section of the chapter, we review popular streaming data sources, such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis, followed by a survey of the top open source streaming engines. We close the chapter with some examples of streaming analytics in action, and some observations about the economics of streaming.