High-Velocity Data—AKA Fast Data or Streaming Data—seems to be all the rage these days. With the increased adoption of Big Data tools, people have recognized the value contained in this data and they are looking to get that value in real-time instead of a time-shifted batch process that can often introduce a 6-hour (or more) delay in time-to-value.
High-velocity data has all of the earmarks of a big technological
wave. The technology leaders are building stream processors.
Venture firms are investing money in stream processing companies.
And existing tech companies are jumping on the bandwagon and
associating their products with this hot trend; making them
buzzword compliant.
Some have asked whether high-velocity data will complement or
replace Big Data. Big Data addresses pooled data, or data at
rest. History tells us that there are …