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Date Published
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Balachandar Seetharaman
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1604
Language
English
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Summary

YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database optimized for OLTP workloads, but it's not specifically designed to process streaming data or real-time analytics. Materialize, on the other hand, is a dedicated streaming database that provides real-time analytics on data streams. By integrating YugabyteDB and Materialize, organizations can benefit from the scalability of YugabyteDB and the real-time analytics capabilities of Materialize. This integration allows for fast-changing data to be handled by both databases, enabling organizations to extract insights from incoming data instantly, eliminating batch processing delays. The combined solution provides a powerful platform for complex data analytics workloads that require both real-time processing and large-scale data warehousing. By leveraging the Debezium envelope in Materialize, organizations can filter, join, and perform analytical operations on streaming data, deriving meaningful insights and taking real-time actions. The integration process involves installing YugabyteDB, setting up Kafka Schema Registry, configuring CDC Stream ID in YugabyteDB, deploying the source connector using Materialize, creating a connection for Kafka, and creating a connection for Confluent Schema Registry. Once set up, Materialize can ingest data from YugabyteDB through Debezium Envelope, enabling organizations to build more robust and scalable applications that meet the needs of various use cases.