timeplus-io/proton

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Timeplus Proton is a unified streaming SQL engine shipped as a single dependency-free C++ binary, built on the ClickHouse engine. It ingests from sources like Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres, and S3/Iceberg, and continuously computes real-time analytics via streaming SQL, materialized views, joins, and alerting.

Use cases

• run streaming SQL queries over Kafka topics in real time
• build real-time analytics dashboards with millisecond latency
• process CDC events from databases into materialized views
• monitor logs and metrics with continuous SQL pipelines
• replace Apache Flink or ksqlDB without JVM overhead
• create real-time context feeds for AI agents
• ingest and transform streaming data into ClickHouse or Iceberg

When to choose

• you need high-throughput stream processing with a single zero-dependency binary
• you want SQL-first streaming ETL instead of writing Flink or Kafka Streams code
• you need millisecond-latency analytics on event streams, logs, or CDC data
• you want native connectors to Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres, and Iceberg in one engine

When to avoid

• you need batch-only analytics with no streaming requirements
• you require a JVM ecosystem with Flink's extensive connector and state backend options
• you need a fully managed distributed cluster with built-in coordination out of the box

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