Pipeline DB: The Continuous View
Although in recent years the general conception of data has begun a phase shift: it was once a solid to be stored and pulled out of a silo on demand and it is now becoming a fluid that continuously surges through complex networks of cooperating systems, enabling them or their users to do smart things as soon as information is produced.
.. This phase shift has led to the beginning of the displacement of classical data technologies by next-generation systems that are able to refine and understand information in real time.
.. We think that the primary consumer of information is becoming software itself and not necessarily analysts who need to frequently run dynamic, ad-hoc queries on granular data. And applications — almost by definition — are pre-programmed to issue certain types of queries to the database, with the only dynamic aspect being parameters such as date ranges.