Data Rivers — The New Analytics Architecture
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Argues that a Data Rivers architecture pairs streaming (Kafka) and lake storage (Hadoop) into Apache Druid for real-time analytics, with native batch and stream ingest, columnar storage, late materialization, and cloud native microservices. Demonstrates sub-second queries at large scale (used at Yahoo and Netflix), exact group-bys plus count distinct with sketches, linear scaling, and compressed indexes like Roaring and Concise to keep storage and query costs low.
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