How Do You Make A Real-Time Database Faster? Rockset Has A Few Ideas
VentureBeat, March 1st, 2023
Real-time analytics database vendor Rockset today announced an update to its namesake platform that introduces a new architecture designed to help accelerate enterprise use cases. A separation of some basic operations is central to achieving the speed up.
Modern data platforms, including data lakehouses, have increasingly separated the compute component where queries are executed from the storage piece where data is stored. But traditionally, compute for data query execution hasn't been separated from data ingestion.
For a real-time database, data needs to be ingested from all sources. Typically, the same compute engine that supports ingest is the same as that which provides the query engine. But, this can lead to performance and latency issues, as well as challenges for executing real-time analytics queries on data.