RisingWave
Stream processing with SQL for real-time data applications
- Also known as
- risingwave
What is RisingWave?
A streaming database that ingests and transforms event streams using PostgreSQL-compatible SQL, serving real-time analytics and materialized results without requiring separate message queues, caches, or databases.
RisingWave pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Self-Hosted
FreeRisingWave Cloud
What RisingWave does
The capabilities that matter for streaming analytics, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Processing model
- Micro batch
- Delivery guarantee
- Exactly once
- Streaming sql
- ✓
- Event time watermarks
- ✓
- Stateful processing
- ✓
- Cdc support
- -
- Deployment model
- Managed saas
- Autoscaling
- ✓
- Connector breadth
- -
- Latency class
- Sub second
- Open source
- ✓
- SOC2
- ✓
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- Kafka
- Apache Iceberg
- DataFusion
- S3
- PostgreSQL
- Slack
- NGINX
- Envoy
- Kong
RisingWave alternatives
Other streaming analytics we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- MaterializeA real-time SQL engine that maintains continuously-updated data views across distributed sourceslow · 42%
- Amazon Managed Service for Apache FlinkFully managed Apache Flink stream processing servicelow · 42%
- Apache Stormlow · 28%
- Azure Stream AnalyticsReal-time data processing and analytics delivered as a managed cloud service without server management overheadlow · 33%
- Google Cloud DataflowA serverless, fully managed platform for processing both batch and streaming data at scalelow · 3%
- Timeplus ProtonA single-binary streaming SQL engine for processing continuous data streams in real-timelow · 15%
Compare RisingWave
Side by side against other streaming analytics, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for RisingWave, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.05 | 4.0 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 55 | 0.07 | 4.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 29 | 0.04 | 1.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.