Best Streaming Analytics Platforms for Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

StarTree Cloud is a fully-managed real-time analytics platform designed for OLAP at massive speed and scale for user-facing applications. Powered by Apache Pinot, StarTree Cloud provides enterprise-grade reliability and advanced capabilities such as tiered storage, scalable upserts, plus additional indexes and connectors. It integrates seamlessly with transactional databases and event streaming platforms, ingesting data at millions of events per second and indexing it for lightning-fast query responses. StarTree Cloud is available on your favorite public cloud or for private SaaS deployment. StarTree Cloud includes StarTree Data Manager, which allows you to ingest data from both real-time sources such as Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, or Redpanda, as well as batch data sources such as data warehouses like Snowflake, Delta Lake or Google BigQuery, or object stores like Amazon S3, Apache Flink, Apache Hadoop, or Apache Spark. StarTree ThirdEye is an add-on anomaly detection system running on top of StarTree Cloud that observes your business-critical metrics, alerting you and allowing you to perform root-cause analysis — all in real-time.

Gathr is a Data+AI fabric, helping enterprises rapidly deliver production-ready data and AI products. Data+AI fabric enables teams to effortlessly acquire, process, and harness data, leverage AI services to generate intelligence, and build consumer applications— all with unparalleled speed, scale, and confidence. Gathr’s self-service, AI-assisted, and collaborative approach enables data and AI leaders to achieve massive productivity gains by empowering their existing teams to deliver more valuable work in less time. With complete ownership and control over data and AI, flexibility and agility to experiment and innovate on an ongoing basis, and proven reliable performance at real-world scale, Gathr allows them to confidently accelerate POVs to production. Additionally, Gathr supports both cloud and air-gapped deployments, making it the ideal choice for diverse enterprise needs. Gathr, recognized by leading analysts like Gartner and Forrester, is a go-to-partner for Fortune 500 companies, such as United, Kroger, Philips, Truist, and many others.

Apache Spark™ serves as a comprehensive analytics platform designed for large-scale data processing. It delivers exceptional performance for both batch and streaming data by employing an advanced Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) scheduler, a sophisticated query optimizer, and a robust execution engine. With over 80 high-level operators available, Spark simplifies the development of parallel applications. Additionally, it supports interactive use through various shells including Scala, Python, R, and SQL. Spark supports a rich ecosystem of libraries such as SQL and DataFrames, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX, and Spark Streaming, allowing for seamless integration within a single application. It is compatible with various environments, including Hadoop, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, and standalone setups, as well as cloud deployments. Furthermore, Spark can connect to a multitude of data sources, enabling access to data stored in systems like HDFS, Alluxio, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, and Apache Hive, among many others. This versatility makes Spark an invaluable tool for organizations looking to harness the power of large-scale data analytics.