you're building a real-time analytics system with:
Java + Spring Boot (Gradle)
Apache Pinot for OLAP (analytics)
Your own data sources (DB)
Third-party data (e.g., from Eyeota)
Possibly high throughput, low-latency needs
🚀 Real-Time Analytics System – High-Level Architecture
Here’s a clean design that supports real-time ingestion, querying, and third-party
enrichment:
🧠 1. Data Ingestion Layer
a. Internal Data (Your DBs)
Use CDC (Change Data Capture) tools like:
Debezium or Apache Kafka Connect JDBC Source
Push changes to Kafka topics
b. Third-Party Data (Eyeota or similar)
Pull/push from their API using a custom Spring Boot microservice
Convert data to a common format (Avro/JSON)
Publish to Kafka (e.g., eyeota-topic)
🧰 2. Stream Processing / Enrichment Layer
Use Apache Flink or Kafka Streams:
Join/enrich your internal data with Eyeota's data
Cleanse, filter, and shape the data
Write to a final Kafka topic that Pinot will ingest from (e.g., analytics-events)
3. Storage & Analytics Layer – Apache Pinot
a. Schema Design
Define schema.json (columns, types, dimensions/metrics)
Define tableConfig.json (realtime ingestion config, Kafka topic, retention,
indexing)
b. Ingestion
Pinot consumes from Kafka in real-time
Stores columnar data optimized for aggregation + filtering
c. Querying
Low-latency SQL queries for dashboards or APIs
📦 4. Spring Boot Application (Java/Gradle)
a. API Gateway + Query Layer
Expose REST APIs for analytics using PinotClient
Query Pinot using SQL (example below)
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PinotConnection connection = ConnectionFactory.fromHostList("localhost:9000");
String query = "SELECT browser, COUNT(*) FROM analyticsTable GROUP BY browser";
ResultSetGroup resultSetGroup = connection.executeQuery(query);
b. Scheduled Fetching / ETL Services
Use @Scheduled tasks for periodic pulls from Eyeota
Process with internal business logic and write to Kafka
📊 5. Dashboard / Frontend (Optional)
Apache Superset, Redash, or custom dashboard hitting your Spring Boot APIs
Real-time graphs, filters, aggregations
☁️ Optional: Infra & Scaling
Kafka for scalable event transport
Zookeeper (for Kafka + Pinot)
Docker / Kubernetes for containerized deployment
Grafana + Prometheus for monitoring Pinot & app health
🧱 Tech Stack Summary
Layer Technology
Ingestion Debezium, Kafka Connect, Spring Boot
Processing Kafka Streams / Flink
Analytics Store Apache Pinot
Query/API Spring Boot + Pinot Client
Dashboard Superset / Custom UI
Infra Docker, Kafka, Gradle, Zookeeper
┌────────────────────┐
│ Internal DBs │
└────────┬───────────┘
│
[Debezium / Kafka Connect]
│
┌────────▼──────────┐
│ Kafka │◄─── Eyeota Data
└────────┬──────────┘ (via API → Spring Boot)
│
┌────────▼──────────┐
│ Stream Processing│
│(Kafka Streams / Flink)
└────────┬──────────┘
│
┌────────▼──────────┐
│ Kafka (Processed)│
└────────┬──────────┘
│
┌────────▼──────────┐
│ Apache Pinot │
│(Realtime OLAP DB) │
└────────┬──────────┘
│
┌─────────────▼──────────────┐
│ Spring Boot App (APIs) │
│ - REST + PinotClient │
│ - Business Logic │
└─────────────┬──────────────┘
│
┌────────▼──────────┐
│ Dashboard / UI │
│(Superset / Custom)│
└───────────────────┘
