Catalog & Cocktails: Bonus Episode with John Kutay

Data streaming, Stream Processing, Real-time analytics, operational analytics — what is this? What’s the difference?

Most important use cases for data streaming

There are lots of misconceptions especially for the MDS crowd (not as much enterprise) between fast batch vs streaming

Memory-first processing (in-memory) vs disk space batch jobs

Change data capture (and only capture of change)

Data warehouses are now tying to support streaming more (like Snowflake)

This will be a big deal to make it so that more streaming can happen

Streaming warehouses (Rockset, Materialize) vs data streaming

Lineage - transformed data - can I trust this data I'm looking at

How does data streaming and lineage come together? What’s unique about lineage in a streaming context?

If time: what does it mean to do streaming data products in a data mesh context?