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RisingWave is a distributed SQL streaming database engineered to provide the simplest and most cost-efficient approach for processing and managing streaming data with utmost reliability.

Try it out in 5 minutes

Docker

docker run -it --pull=always -p 4566:4566 -p 5691:5691 risingwavelabs/risingwave:latest playground

Mac

brew tap risingwavelabs/risingwave
brew install risingwave
risingwave playground

Ubuntu

wget https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/releases/download/v1.5.0/risingwave-v1.5.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-all-in-one.tar.gz
tar xvf risingwave-v1.5.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-all-in-one.tar.gz
./risingwave playground

Now connect to RisingWave using psql:

psql -h localhost -p 4566 -d dev -U root

Learn more at Quick Start.

Production deployments

For single-node Docker deployments, please refer to Docker Compose.

For Kubernetes deployments, please refer to Kubernetes with Helm or Kubernetes with Operator.

RisingWave Cloud the easiest way to run a fully-fledged RisingWave cluster. Try it out for free at: cloud.risingwave.com.

Why RisingWave for stream processing?

RisingWave provides users with a comprehensive set of frequently used stream processing features, including exactly-once consistency, time window functions, watermarks, and more. It specializes in providing incrementally updated, consistent materialized views — a persistent data structure that represents the results of stream processing. RisingWave significantly reduces the complexity of building stream processing applications by allowing developers to express intricate stream processing logic through cascaded materialized views. Furthermore, it allows users to persist data directly within the system, eliminating the need to deliver results to external databases for storage and query serving.

Compared to existing stream processing systems like Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, and ksqlDB, RisingWave stands out in two primary dimensions: Ease-of-use and cost efficiency, thanks to its PostgreSQL-style interaction experience and Snowflake-like architectural design (i.e., decoupled storage and compute).

Ease-of-use

• Simple to learn
  • RisingWave speaks PostgreSQL-style SQL, enabling users to dive into stream processing in much the same way as operating a PostgreSQL database.
• Simple to develop
  • RisingWave operates as a relational database, allowing users to decompose stream processing logic into smaller, manageable, stacked materialized views, rather than dealing with extensive computational programs.
• Simple to integrate
  • With integrations to a diverse range of cloud systems and the PostgreSQL ecosystem, RisingWave boasts a rich and expansive ecosystem, making it straightforward to incorporate into existing infrastructures.

Cost efficiency

• Highly efficient in complex queries
  • RisingWave persists internal states in remote storage systems such as S3, and users can confidently and efficiently perform complex streaming queries (for example, joining dozens of data streams) in a production environment, without worrying about state size.
• Transparent dynamic scaling
  • RisingWave's state management mechanism enables near-instantaneous dynamic scaling without any service interruptions.
• Instant failure recovery
  • RisingWave's state management mechanism also allows it to recover from failure in seconds, not minutes or hours.

RisingWave as a database

RisingWave is fundamentally a database that extends beyond basic streaming data processing capabilities. It excels in the effective management of streaming data, making it a trusted choice for data persistence and powering online applications. RisingWave offers an extensive range of database capabilities, which include:

• High availability
• Serving highly concurrent queries
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Integration with data modeling tools, such as dbt
• Integration with database management tools, such as Dbeaver
• Integration with BI tools, such as Grafana
• Schema change
• Processing of semi-structured data

RisingWave's limitations

RisingWave isn’t a panacea for all data engineering hurdles. It has its own set of limitations:

• No programmable interfaces
  • RisingWave does not provide low-level APIs in languages like Java and Scala, and does not allow users to manage internal states manually (unless you want to hack!). For coding in Java, Python, and other languages, please consider using RisingWave's User-Defined Functions (UDF).
• No support for transaction processing
  • RisingWave isn’t cut out for transactional workloads, thus it’s not a viable substitute for operational databases dedicated to transaction processing. However, it supports read-only transactions, ensuring data freshness and consistency. It also comprehends the transactional semantics of upstream database Change Data Capture (CDC).

In-production use cases

Like other stream processing systems, the primary use cases of RisingWave include monitoring, alerting, real-time dashboard reporting, streaming ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), machine learning feature engineering, and more. It has already been adopted in fields such as financial trading, manufacturing, new media, logistics, gaming, and more. Check out customer stories.

Community

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Notes on telemetry

RisingWave collects anonymous usage statistics to better understand how the community is using RisingWave. The sole intention of this exercise is to help improve the product. Users may opt out easily at any time. Please refer to the user documentation for more details.

License

RisingWave is distributed under the Apache License (Version 2.0). Please refer to LICENSE for more information.

Contributing

Thanks for your interest in contributing to the project! Please refer to contribution guidelines for more information.