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Narayan: Materialize provides 99.9% of batch database functionality
“And we really think materialize the product is the first database that gives you know, I don't want to say literally all the functionality, but to the morally speaking, you know, 99.9% of the functionality that you can write in a batch database.”
Narayan: Streaming will remain niche until tooling matches batch systems
“Until streaming gets to the same level of tooling, and a large part of that tooling is dbt as existing batch systems you know, it will still remain a fairly niche technology.”
Narayan: Timely Dataflow was first stream processor to match batch processing capabilities
“It was sort of the first, what I would describe as The very first stream processor that could do everything that batch processors could do.”
Arjun Narayan: Streaming data processing has expanded beyond niche financial applications
“And what we've been seeing is that streaming has started to become over the, over several decades and particularly in the past few years, much, much more broadly applicable. Beyond those small niche use cases as more and more businesses and use users benefit f…”
Arjun Narayan: Standard analytics databases add latency by lacking incremental computation
“So, so stopping everything and recomputing from scratch is not really a framework that scales to these lower and lower latencies, which is why fundamentally a lot of analytics databases today including some of the more famous ones, they would prefer it if you …”