Core Concepts

Understand the basic concepts and technologies that underpin DeltaStream

DeltaStream is a unified analytics platform that combines batch and stream processing and real-time analytics in one platform. Write queries in SQL, and DeltaStream routes them to the optimal execution engine – for example, Flink for streaming, Spark for batch, and ClickHouse for materialized views.

You can also use DeltaStream’s SQL-based interface to build stream processing applications such as streaming pipelines, materialized views, microservices, and more.

Note DeltaStream sits on top of your streaming data stores, meaning that you should already have one or more streaming stores such as Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis.

This section provides more details on the core concepts in DeltaStream. Below is a brief walk-through of the most important constructs with which to familiarize yourself.