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What a horrible landing page. Is it a stand alone product? Does it integrate with my SQL database? Is it a server side application or a client side thing? What is the pricing model? So many questions, zero answers

Am in the process of exploring kafka to do something similar, and I think it will work but requires quite a complex setup (compared to an incrementally updated materialized view)

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It's typically integrated with Kafka sources (and often also Kafka sinks), but you can just use any normal PostgreSQL client driver and normal SQL.

It does integrate with your postgres database, but logical replication target mode is still a TODO. Don't worry though, this only means the change data stream has to go through a Kafka broker. There should be a guide on this (if not, plop in the community Slack and ask).

The license allows for free single-node deployments; the SaaS variant is currently in Beta, so you'll have to ask. On-premise clusters for production usage are "contact sales", but AFAIK due to the low sales volume (turns out, vertical scaling is easy and often enough), so don't let that scare you off.

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