--- title: What Is a Streaming Database? | daily.dev description: A streaming database is designed to process large amounts of real-time streaming data, providing real-time insights and analysis. It is ideal for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-streaming-database--iv5ubdjz1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Is a Streaming Database? | daily.dev og:description: A streaming database is designed to process large amounts of real-time streaming data, providing real-time insights and analysis. It is ideal for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-streaming-database--iv5ubdjz1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IV5UBdJz1.png og:image:alt: What Is a Streaming Database? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Is a Streaming Database? **[Towards Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev)** · 5 min read · 28 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A streaming database is designed to process large amounts of real-time streaming data, providing real-time insights and analysis. It is ideal for latency-critical applications such as real-time analytics, fraud detection, network monitoring, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Streaming databases differ from traditional databases in their processing approach and can be used alongside other data systems for streaming ingestion and streaming analytics. They also differ from OLTP and OLAP databases in terms of ACID compliance, data correctness, and query optimization. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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