Best Real-Time Analytic Databases

Materialize is a reactive database that delivers incremental view updates. We help developers easily build with streaming data using standard SQL. Materialize can connect to many different external sources of data without pre-processing. Connect directly to streaming sources like Kafka, Postgres databases, CDC, or historical sources of data like files or S3. Materialize allows you to query, join, and transform data sources in standard SQL - and presents the results as incrementally-updated Materialized views. Queries are maintained and continually updated as new data streams in. With incrementally-updated views, developers can easily build data visualizations or real-time applications. Building with streaming data can be as simple as writing a few lines of SQL.

Apache Doris is a modern data warehouse for real-time analytics. It delivers lightning-fast analytics on real-time data at scale. Push-based micro-batch and pull-based streaming data ingestion within a second. Storage engine with real-time upsert, append and pre-aggregation. Optimize for high-concurrency and high-throughput queries with columnar storage engine, MPP architecture, cost based query optimizer, vectorized execution engine. Federated querying of data lakes such as Hive, Iceberg and Hudi, and databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Compound data types such as Array, Map and JSON. Variant data type to support auto data type inference of JSON data. NGram bloomfilter and inverted index for text searches. Distributed design for linear scalability. Workload isolation and tiered storage for efficient resource management. Supports shared-nothing clusters as well as separation of storage and compute.

Apache Druid is an open source distributed data store. Druid’s core design combines ideas from data warehouses, timeseries databases, and search systems to create a high performance real-time analytics database for a broad range of use cases. Druid merges key characteristics of each of the 3 systems into its ingestion layer, storage format, querying layer, and core architecture. Druid stores and compresses each column individually, and only needs to read the ones needed for a particular query, which supports fast scans, rankings, and groupBys. Druid creates inverted indexes for string values for fast search and filter. Out-of-the-box connectors for Apache Kafka, HDFS, AWS S3, stream processors, and more. Druid intelligently partitions data based on time and time-based queries are significantly faster than traditional databases. Scale up or down by just adding or removing servers, and Druid automatically rebalances. Fault-tolerant architecture routes around server failures.

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to use data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance, and is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the uniqueness of your data. The winners in every industry will be data and AI companies. From ETL to data warehousing to generative AI, Databricks helps you simplify and accelerate your data and AI goals. Databricks combines generative AI with the unification benefits of a lakehouse to power a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the unique semantics of your data. This allows the Databricks Platform to automatically optimize performance and manage infrastructure in ways unique to your business. The Data Intelligence Engine understands your organization’s language, so search and discovery of new data is as easy as asking a question like you would to a coworker.

A scalable cloud database for real-time analysis on large and streaming datasets. Kinetica is designed to harness modern vectorized processors to be orders of magnitude faster and more efficient for real-time spatial and temporal workloads. Track and gain intelligence from billions of moving objects in real-time. Vectorization unlocks new levels of performance for analytics on spatial and time series data at scale. Ingest and query at the same time to act on real-time events. Kinetica's lockless architecture and distributed ingestion ensures data is available to query as soon as it lands. Vectorized processing enables you to do more with less. More power allows for simpler data structures, which lead to lower storage costs, more flexibility and less time engineering your data. Vectorized processing opens the door to amazingly fast analytics and detailed visualization of moving objects at scale.

Powered by Apache Doris, VeloDB is a modern data warehouse for lightning-fast analytics on real-time data at scale. Push-based micro-batch and pull-based streaming data ingestion within seconds. Storage engine with real-time upsert、append and pre-aggregation. Unparalleled performance in both real-time data serving and interactive ad-hoc queries. Not just structured but also semi-structured data. Not just real-time analytics but also batch processing. Not just run queries against internal data but also work as a federate query engine to access external data lakes and databases. Distributed design to support linear scalability. Whether on-premise deployment or cloud service, separation or integration of storage and compute, resource usage can be flexibly and efficiently adjusted according to workload requirements. Built on and fully compatible with open source Apache Doris. Support MySQL protocol, functions, and SQL for easy integration with other data tools.