Rockset: A Real-Time Cloud Database for Analytics

This chapter unpacks Rockset, a cloud-native database specialized for real-time search and analytics, distinguishing its OLAP analytics capabilities from OLTP databases. It exemplifies Rockset's automatic scalability in the cloud, emphasizing the crucial role of real-time ingest latency for rapid data processing and analysis. Various real-world applications across gaming, logistics, fintech, and more are discussed, emphasizing how Rockset leverages RocksDB for scaling, log structure merging, and AI functionalities.