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Data latency

Data latency is the delay between something happening and it being available for analysis.

Written by Reflective Data experts · updated Oct 5, 2026

It is shaped by source APIs, pipeline schedules and transformation time. Daily is fine for strategic reporting; operational use cases may need minutes.

Always agree the freshness each report actually needs before paying for lower latency.

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Change data capture (CDC)

Change data capture tracks inserts, updates and deletes in a source database and replicates only those…

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Data masking

Data masking hides or obscures sensitive values, so people can work with data without seeing personal…

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Microsoft Azure

Azure is Microsoft cloud platform, with data services such as Synapse, Data Lake Storage and Fabric.

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Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud data platform used as a data warehouse, with storage and compute scaled…

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Google BigQuery

BigQuery is Google serverless cloud data warehouse, popular for analytics and a common destination for GA4…

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Row-level security

Row-level security restricts which rows of a table a user can see, based on who they…

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