> You cannot say HTAP is dead when the alternative is so much complexity and so many moving parts. Most enterprises are burning huge amounts of resources literally just shuffling data around for zero business value.

We built an HTAP platform as a layer over Cassandra for precisely that reason round about when Gartner invented the term.

In finance and fintech, there are ample use cases where the need for transactional consistency and horizontal scalability to process and report on large volumes come together, and where the banks really struggle to meet requirements.

I dug out an old description of our platform, updated it a bit, and put it on Medium, in case anyone is interested: https://medium.com/@paul_42036/a-technical-description-of-th...