The document discusses how data scientists need real-time analytics capabilities to power the on-demand economy. It introduces MemSQL 5 as a database platform for real-time analytics that can help overcome barriers like slow loading, queries, and ongoing data processing faced with batch processing. MemSQL 5 includes features like Streamliner for building real-time data pipelines and predictive analytics using Spark and MLlib to power applications like predictive scoring and IoT.