Sure - I work in games, and we stream eventsfrom clients that we want to store in Clickhouse. We've got a native desktop application written in C++ that generates a json payload (we control the format of this). We don't need OSS, but we don't want a SAAS service - we want on-prem (or self managed). Clickhouse Cloud would be fine, TinyBird not.
> Estuary (an ETL tool) just released Dekaf which lets them appear as a Kafka broker by exposing a Kafka-compatible API
This is definitely an improvement, but if it looks like kafka and sounds like kafka, I get a bit sus.
> If you just want to play with CH, you can always use clickhouse-local
I've done that, but getting from this to "streaming data" is where I get stuck.
> If you don't need streams
Afraid streams are what I'm dealing with..
> Estuary (an ETL tool) just released Dekaf which lets them appear as a Kafka broker by exposing a Kafka-compatible API
This is definitely an improvement, but if it looks like kafka and sounds like kafka, I get a bit sus.
> If you just want to play with CH, you can always use clickhouse-local
I've done that, but getting from this to "streaming data" is where I get stuck.
> If you don't need streams
Afraid streams are what I'm dealing with..