Highlights of RisingWave v1.8

An open-source streaming database that ingests, processes, and serves real-time data with SQL, enabling sub-second freshness and exactly-once guarantees. It targets developers and data teams in mid-market and enterprise organizations. It is positioned as a unified platform that combines stream processing with low-latency serving and managed Apache Iceberg tables, differentiating through its SQL-first approach and open-source core.

Key features

• Real-time event processing with SQL
• Incremental materialized views
• Low-latency serving (single-digit millisecond)
• Apache Iceberg table maintenance
• Streaming ingestion into Iceberg
• DataFusion-powered analytics
• Exactly-once semantics
• PostgreSQL-compatible SQL