This document discusses building a streaming data pipeline using Apache technologies like Kafka, Spark Streaming, and MapR-DB. It describes collecting streaming data with Kafka, organizing the data into topics, and processing the streams in Spark Streaming. The streaming data can then be stored in MapR-DB and queried using Spark SQL. An example uses a streaming payment dataset to demonstrate parsing the data, transforming it into a Dataset, and continuously aggregating values with Spark Streaming.