RisingWave is a cloud-native, enterprise-grade event streaming platform built in Rust, designed for real-time data processing with sub-100ms latency. It unifies streaming and lakehouse worlds by continuously ingesting data from various sources like databases, message queues, and IoT devices, transforming it in motion, and materializing results for instant serving. It also integrates with Apache Iceberg for managing data in managed tables, simplifying ELT/ETL processes without the need for orchestrators or compactors.
The platform is ideal for organizations needing continuous insights from live and historical data, supporting use cases such as monitoring and alerting, real-time data enrichment, IoT/telemetry pipelines, and streaming lakehouses. RisingWave is trusted by over 1,000 data-driven organizations across various industries including financial services, energy, manufacturing, sports betting, logistics, ad/marketing tech, e-commerce, and healthcare, enabling them to build proactive agents, AI automation, and customer engagement solutions.
RisingWave is an open-source, PostgreSQL-compatible streaming database that processes data streams with SQL and maintains real-time materialized views.
Is RisingWave free?
RisingWave is open-source and free to use. Cloud hosting has free tiers and usage-based pricing.
How does RisingWave compare to Flink?
RisingWave is simpler to use with PostgreSQL compatibility, while Flink offers more flexibility but requires more expertise.