Unifying Streams and State: The Seamless Path to Real Time

This post introduces ksqlDB as an event streaming database that unifies stream processing and state management, simplifying architectures by reducing the number of separate systems required and offering a single SQL query language for both streams and point-in-time state. It integrates with Kafka connectors and Schema Registry, and is available as a managed service in Confluent Cloud. The focus is on making data pipelines and asynchronously materialized views more accessible and cost-effective.