Event-driven architectures are wonderful. But Kafka was never intended to be a database, and using it as a database won’t solve your problem. It’s a tale as old as time. An enterprise is struggling ...

Confluent narrowed the distance separating Kafka-esque stream data processing and traditional database technology with today’s unveiling of ksqlDB, a new database built atop Kafka that the company ...

Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key ...

Sometimes a database is like a collection of wax tablets that you can stack and sort through to update, and these days, sometimes it is more like a river that has a shape defined by its geography but ...

Don’t look now, but Kafka is transforming into a database. That’s the new direction the popular event streaming platform is headed, according to Confluent CEO Jay Kreps keynote this morning, in which ...

Specifically, the connector leverages Oracle's change data capture (CDC) technology, which transmits updates, inserts and deletes from the OLTP database into special tables that can be polled without ...

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Kinetica, provider in-memory analytics databases accelerated by GPUs, is joining the Confluent Partner Program and has completed the development and certification of its Apache Kafka Connector.