I don't disagree but the use cases Uber is talking about is not app functionality but for their analytics team (from the article): - Build dashboards to monito

I don't disagree but the use cases Uber is talking about is not app functionality but for their analytics team (from the article): - Build dashboards to monitor our business metrics - Make automated decisions (such as trip pricing and fraud detection) based on aggregated metrics that we collect - Make ad hoc queries to diagnose and troubleshoot business operations issues None of those require real-time information, because there isn't real-time decision-making required from the information presented.* With the exception of the "automated decisions", then I don't see the need.