What is real-time streaming?
Real-time streaming is a data-processing paradigm where data is continuously generated, transmitted, and processed as it is created, with minimal delay. Unlike batch processing, which collects and processes data in large groups or batches at regular intervals, real-time streaming focuses on the immediate and continuous flow of data, enabling instant analysis and response. It’s like watching a live stream instead of waiting for a video to download entirely.
Before we continue any further, let us look at some of the key characteristics of real-time streaming:
- Continuous data flow: Real-time streaming is like a never-ending flow of information coming in all at once from different places. This information can be from sensors, people using things online, money being bought and sold, such as Bitcoin, and so on.
- Low latency: The main goal of real-time streaming is to make the delay between information being created and it being used as short...
