KAFKA SUMMIT AMERICAS

Streaming data systems have been growing rapidly in importance to the modern data stack. Kafka’s kSQL provides an interface for analytic tools that speak SQL. Apache Superset, the most popular modern open-source visualization and analytics solution, plugs into nearly any data source that speaks SQL, including Kafka. Here, we review and compare methods for connecting Kafka to Superset to enable streaming analytics use cases including anomaly detection, operational monitoring, and online data integration.