[amath]

I am often confused on how things like imperative stream processing frameworks are supposed to work with the streaming database, if at all. Like what are you supposed to interact with the streaming database with? Is it only for streaming ETL? Do you need another application layer that can natively integrate, orchestrate and function. Maybe using a stream processing framework with a streaming database could facilitate a full application stack.

[skadamat]

Yeah if anything it seems like the streaming SQL engines _replace_ libraries like bytewax or quix