Patent attributes
An apparatus comprises an analytics platform having a plurality of distributed processing nodes. Data from a data source is received at a first one of the processing nodes. One or more analytics operations are performed on the data at the first processing node, and the data is updated at the first processing node based on results of the one or more analytics operations. The updated data is transmitted to another one of the processing nodes along a data path between the data source and a data destination. The performing, updating and transmitting are repeated for the other processing node and for one or more additional distributed processing nodes of the analytics platform along the data path. The analytics platform thereby performs distributed analytics processing on the data over multiple distributed processing nodes as the data moves through the data path from the data source to the data destination.