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# What is the RTDIP SDK?

​​**Real Time Data Ingestion Platform (RTDIP) SDK** is a python software development kit built to provide users, data scientists and developers with the ability to interact with components of the Real Time Data Ingestion Platform, including:

- Building, Executing and Deploying Ingestion Pipelines
- Execution of queries on RTDIP data
- Authentication to securely interact with environments and data

## Installation

To get started with the RTDIP SDK, follow these [installation instructions.](../getting-started/installation.md)
