Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2024 Trend Report, Database Systems: Modernization for Data-Driven Architectures.

Real-time streaming architectures are designed to ingest, process, and analyze data as it arrives continuously, enabling near real-time decision making and insights. They need to have low latency, handle high-throughput data volumes, and be fault tolerant in the event of failures. Some of the challenges in this area include: