(PS I am one of the contributors of Timeplus Proton. What I said could be biased.) Thanks for the feedbacks and they totally make sense. We will definitely work on the README, FAQ etc to make key use cases etc more explicit.
A very typical scenario is live query / analysis data in Kafka topics with Proton Streaming SQL and materialize the processed / aggregated results to a downstream system like ClickHouse or a target Kafka topic. What we need to do is
1. curl download the binary
2. create an external stream to point to your Kafka topic
3. run the streaming SQL.
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A very typical scenario is live query / analysis data in Kafka topics with Proton Streaming SQL and materialize the processed / aggregated results to a downstream system like ClickHouse or a target Kafka topic. What we need to do is 1. curl download the binary 2. create an external stream to point to your Kafka topic 3. run the streaming SQL.