System and method for continuous analytics run against a combination of static and real-time data

A method for continuous analytics run against a combination of static and real-time data, comprising:

• receiving, in a query engine, from a client, a query that indicates an analytic function to be performed on a combination of static data and real-time data;
• in response to receiving the query that indicates the analytic function to be performed on the combination of static data and real-time data:
• loading, by a processor, an in-memory storage from a first source external to the processor with data which was stored as the static data;
• at the same time that the in-memory storage is already loaded with the static data, continuously receiving, by the processor, real-time data as it is being generated by a second source external to the processor, the real-time data being ephemeral;
• in response to the real-time data which is continuously received subsequent to receipt of the query:
• temporally correlating, by the processor, the real-time data with existing static data in the in-memory storage;
• and
• continuously running, by the processor, the analytic function from the query against, in combination, both the real-time data which is being continuously received and the existing static data which is loaded in the in-memory storage and which is temporally correlated to the real-time data, to continuously produce a result of the analytic function.

A method for continuous analytics run against a combination of static and real-time data, comprising:

• by a processor, in response to a command that indicates an analytic function to be performed on at least real-time data:
• continuously receiving, by the processor, real-time data as it is being generated by a source external to the processor, the real-time data being ephemeral;
• in response to the real-time data which is continuously received subsequent to the command:
• continuously running, by the processor, the analytic function from the command against the at least real-time data which is being continuously received, to continuously produce a result of the analytic function;
• storing, by the processor, the result of the analytic function in an in-memory storage as an analytic cube for use in subsequent calculations together with a time stamp in association with the result of the analytic function, as part of the analytic cube;
• and
• in response to a subsequent calculation for the real-time data having a time period which includes the time stamp, re-using, by the processor, the result of the analytic function from the in-memory storage based on the time stamp associated therewith, together with the real-time data which is newly received, as a source of data for the subsequent calculation.