Big Data For Dummies

Chapter 16

Dealing with Real-Time Data Streams and Complex Event Processing

In This Chapter

Streaming data

Exploring complex event processing

Understanding how streaming data and complex event processing impact big data

Using streaming data and complex event processing in the real world

Streaming data in action

Big data is offering new and exciting approaches to providing a different level of insight and operational sophistication to data management. In many of the examples discussed in the preceding chapters, big data is analyzed in batch mode. Often the most important issues for organizations are that the amount of data is huge and it needs to be processed and managed at the right speed to impact outcomes. But most of this analysis is related to large-scale analysis and decision making. Analyzing the massive amount of data from multitudes of sources can help the organization understand the meaning of data, plan for the future, and anticipate market changes and unanticipated customer ...