Proton: A Single Binary for Streaming and Historical Analytics

Explore a 10-minute conference talk from OSA Con 2023 where Ken Chen delves into Proton, a unified streaming and historical analytic engine built on ClickHouse's codebase. Learn about the technical internals of this Apache v2 licensed open-source project, including watermarking, streaming query state management, and internal streaming store functionality. Discover how Proton bridges the gap between historical data and live streaming while examining core features such as tumble/hop/session window processing, streaming join, aggregation, and newly designed materialized views. Gain insights into Timeplus's commitment to contributing Proton's streaming query processing features back to the ClickHouse community, including their ongoing progress and future porting roadmap. Understand how this integration aims to enhance ClickHouse OSS's capabilities to better serve community users through unified streaming and historical analytics.