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# [Stream Processing Without a Message Queue: Do You Really Need Kafka?](https://risingwave.com/blog/stream-processing-without-kafka-message-queue?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Kafka is a reflex, not a requirement. Learn when a streaming database can ingest directly from databases, files, and HTTP, and when a message queue earns its keep.

May 22 · 8 min read · risingwave.com  
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RisingWave is an open-source real-time event streaming platform.

RisingWave is a real-time event streaming platform designed to offer the simplest and most cost-effective way to process, analyze, and manage real-time event data — with built-in support for the Apache Iceberg™ open table format. It provides both a Postgres-compatible SQL interface and a DataFrame-style Python interface. RisingWave can ingest millions of events per second, continuously join and analyze live streams with historical data, serve ad-hoc queries at low latency, and manage data reliably in Apache Iceberg™ tables.

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