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"Real-time" is relative to the time scale on which you look at it. Nobody dealing with a daily flow of business data actually falls behind and ends up making d
by dkarl 17y ago
"Real-time" is relative to the time scale on which you look at it. Nobody dealing with a daily flow of business data actually falls behind and ends up making decisions on older and older data because processing is backed up. "Real-time" just means "faster;" it's relative to human expectations. If seismic data gathered this morning were processed and available for inspection late this afternoon, that would be "real-time." If an MRI was performed this morning, and the image wasn't available until this afternoon, that would not be "real-time." It's a mooshy term -- it has meaning in a specific domain, relative to human expectations in that domain. In the article, outside any specific domain, it doesn't mean anything.
"a succession of data elements made available over time" and stream processing as "the quasi-continuous flow of data which is processed in...
Basically automated batch processing where the "chunkiness" lies beneath a certain threshold of perception.
While "real-time" and "stream" are too frequently used as buzzwords these days, IBM is actually using them correctly in this case.
How can you tell? If you have a better link, with real information, post it!
- scott_s 17y agohttp://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1376616.1376729 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1376616.1376729 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1289612.1289615 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1289612.1289615
- dkarl 17y agoThis looks interesting. Now if somebody could explain how I was supposed to realize there was something interesting behind that crappy New York Times article (short of already knowing?) My original post got modded into oblivion, but I stand by it. The article looks like press material provided by IBM and lightly worked over by the Times writer whose name appears on it.
- wmf 17y agoI know where you're coming from; I love writing cynical "buzzword alarm" comments. This time you got unlucky and criticized a legitimate project; I wouldn't worry too much about it.
- dkarl 17y agoJust because marketing drivel happens to be true doesn't make it right to post it on Hacker News. A stopped clock is right twice a day. I don't have anything against the project, just the fact that the marketroids got their copy published in the New York Times and then linked on Hacker News.
- wmf 17y agoYeah, I wish people would submit the technical papers instead.