Company transforms data streaming economics with cloud-native architecture. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamNative, the cloud-native data streaming company founded by the original creators of Apache Pulsar, today made a series of announcements at this week's Data Streaming Summit 2024, including the public preview of Ursa Engine, designed to address the need for cost-effective, future-proof streaming data platforms. The Ursa Engine, built upon Apache Pulsar's cloud-native architecture, is a 100% Kafka-compatible engine that is built on data lakehouses. It brings the power of real-time data streaming to data lakehouses and augments it to create a single, unified platform for greater flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Ursa shifts from the ZooKeeper and BookKeeper-based architecture toward a headless stream storage architecture, using Oxia as a metadata store, Object Storage as data storage and making BookKeeper optional. By leveraging the Ursa Engine, users will: Reduce costs associated with scaling streaming data infrastructure;

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