Streambased is a unified event streaming data platform designed to seamlessly integrate real-time and historical data for applications, data lakes, and AI systems. By providing logical views over data in Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg without the need for data movement or duplication, Streambased enables teams to access and analyze streaming data with confidence and speed.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Iceberg Service for Kafka (I.S.K.): Projects Kafka topics directly as Apache Iceberg tables, allowing immediate querying of real-time data without duplication.
- Analytics Service for Kafka (A.S.K.): Offers a fully distributed SQL engine that integrates with analytics applications supporting JDBC, ODBC, or SQLAlchemy, enabling direct SQL queries on Kafka data.
- Storage Service for Kafka (S.S.K.): Provides an Amazon S3-compatible proxy, allowing users to access real-time Kafka data as if it were a filesystem.
- Streambased MCP Server: Implements Anthropic's Model Context Protocol standard, enabling AI agents to access real-time data.
Primary Value and Solutions Provided:
Streambased addresses several challenges faced by organizations dealing with streaming data:
- Elimination of ETL Pipelines: By providing logical views over data, Streambased removes the need for complex ETL processes, reducing latency and operational overhead.
- Real-Time Data Access: Enables immediate querying of data as it arrives in Kafka, ensuring that dashboards, reports, and AI models are always up-to-date.
- Unified Governance: Applies consistent governance policies, including permissions, lineage, and schema evolution, across both operational and analytical applications, ensuring data integrity and compliance.
- Performance Optimization: Utilizes indexing techniques to accelerate query performance, delivering up to 100x speed improvements over traditional SQL-on-Kafka solutions.
By integrating real-time and historical data without the need for data movement, Streambased provides a single source of truth, enhances data accessibility, and simplifies the data architecture for organizations.
