You may find this article about "turning the database inside-out" using Apache Samza to be quite interesting: http://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-

You may find this article about "turning the database inside-out" using Apache Samza to be quite interesting: http://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/ http://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out... From my experience, a decoupling of the functions that a database management system provides (storage, optimization, handling of streams, etc.) and the ability to think about those capabilities as modules within a framework is a powerful concept.