# Cloudera Streaming --- Tap into the power of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to create high-performance, real-time services and applications. [Cloudera named Leader](https://www.cloudera.com/blog/business/cloudera-named-a-leader-and-fast-mover-in-2025-gigaom-radar-for-streaming-data-platforms.html?internal_keyplay=MDA&internal_campaign=Website-Product-Refresh---Streaming-Web-Page&cid=UNGATED&internal_link=p06) OVERVIEW ## Your foundation for building real-time applications. Cloudera Streaming is designed for mission-critical applications. Using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink for real-time data processing, it handles millions of events per second with low latency and guaranteed consistency. --- Accelerate application development by enabling teams to easily build reliable pipelines for real-time ML models and advanced predictive analytics. --- Develop, test, and deploy streaming applications consistently, securely, and with governance across on-premises or cloud environments. --- Build faster, more secure data management and analytics applications with optimal performance and scalability, anywhere. USE CASES ## Enable the applications that power your business. - **Real-time fraud detection** Build microservices that analyze transaction streams in real time. #### Leverage Kafka's guaranteed delivery and Flink’s stateful processing to model and combat complex, evolving fraud threats. Develop sophisticated applications requiring state, context, and complex event processing for real-time model scoring. - **Dynamic customer experiences** Build event-driven applications that act on interaction data the instant it’s created. - **Predictive maintenance and optimized industrial processes** Build applications that ingest and analyze high-volume data from connected devices. - **Enterprise-grade security** Secure and govern the data lifecycle via integrations with the larger Cloudera platform. #### Create in-the-moment offers, dynamic recommendations, and proactive service applications with Cloudera SQL Stream Builder. Empower analysts to use SQL on live Flink streams, enabling real-time personalization and instant next-best-action decisions for customers. #### Process complex IoT streams, identify leading indicators of failure, and trigger auto-responses. Our operators for Kafka and Flink automate deployment and scaling, freeing up your teams to focus on application logic. #### [Cloudera SDX](https://www.cloudera.com/products/cloudera-data-platform/sdx.html) protects all data in motion, ensuring data quality and consistency. Provide operations teams with comprehensive monitoring tools that let them control data access and governance. ## Key features - [Cloudera SQL Stream Builder](https://www.cloudera.com/products/stream-processing.html#) - [Cloudera Streaming Analytics](https://www.cloudera.com/products/stream-processing.html#) - [Cloudera Streams Messaging](https://www.cloudera.com/products/stream-processing.html#) - [A comprehensive toolkit for streaming data](https://www.cloudera.com/products/stream-processing.html#) - [Cloudera Surveyor for Kafka](https://www.cloudera.com/products/stream-processing.html#) An intuitive interface for building, testing, and managing Flink SQL jobs. It accelerates development cycles and empowers a wider range of technical users to create robust streaming applications. [Read more](https://docs.cloudera.com/csa/latest/ssb-overview/topics/csa-ssb-intro.html) A platform built on the industry-leading stream processing engine, Apache Flink, Cloudera Streaming Analytics provides the power and resilience your team's mission-critical application demands. [Read more](https://docs.cloudera.com/csa/1.15.1/index.html) A robust, scalable, and secure messaging backbone for your real-time applications with Apache Kafka, Cloudera Streams Messaging provides a reliable data transport layer for the most demanding development workloads. [Read more](https://docs.cloudera.com/csm-operator/1.4/index.html) Cloudera Streaming, coupled with [Cloudera Data Flow](https://www.cloudera.com/products/dataflow.html), delivers integrated, enterprise-grade components, using NiFi for secure ingestion, Kafka for resilient transit, and Flink for real-time processing across the full data lifecycle. Cloudera Surveyor offers a single pane of glass for Kafka observability on Kubernetes, simplifying operations and ensuring the health of the application data backbone. The Schema Registry provides a centralized, versioned repository for managing data schemas. [Read more](https://docs.cloudera.com/csm-operator/1.4/surveyor-overview/topics/csm-op-surveyor-overview.html) Customers ## Cloudera Streaming drives real value across industries. public sectorIRS Watch Video financial servicesBanco Santander Spain [Success Story](https://www.cloudera.com/customers/banco-santander-spain.html) manufacturing and automotiveDell Watch Video [Success Story](https://www.cloudera.com/customers/dell.html) Deployment options ## A flexible foundation to build and deploy anywhere. **For public cloud apps** Enable your teams to build and scale their real-time applications on their public cloud platform of choice. **On on-premises apps** Deploy as part of your private cloud to give developers maximum control over latency and resources. **As operator for Kubernetes** Empower DevOps to offer Flink and Kafka independently in a conformant Kubernetes cluster to maximize agility and self-service. [See pricing](https://www.cloudera.com/products/pricing.html) ## Cloudera Streaming Community Edition Cloudera Streaming Community Edition makes developing stream processors easy and can be done right from your desktop or any other development node. Analysts, data scientists, and developers can now evaluate new features, develop SQL-based stream processors locally, and develop Kafka Consumers/Producers and Kafka Connect Connectors, all locally before moving to production. **Get up and running in 5 minutes with the Streaming Community Edition**. [Download now](https://www.cloudera.com/downloads/cdf/csp-community-edition.html) ## Get engaged WhitepaperStreaming and Data Lakehouses Market GuideDownload now DatasheetCloudera Streams MessagingRead now WhitepaperThe keys to building a complete Kafka frameworkRead now ## Take the next step See how real-time insights can transform for your organization with Cloudera Streaming. #### Explore the documentation Explore documentation for Cloudera Streaming Analytics on premises, powered by Apache Flink. [Read now](https://docs.cloudera.com/csa/1.16.0/index.html) #### What's new in Cloudera Streaming Analytics Learn about new features in addition to the core functionality of Apache Flink and SQL Stream Builder.