timeplus-io/proton

The fastest unified streaming SQL Engine in a single C++ binary. ⚡ Millisecond latency. 100+ GB/s throughput. Continuously compute stateful context from streams, logs, metrics, events, and CDC.

75 best points · 76 comments · 8 Hacker News posts · 2,281 GitHub stars · View on GitHub

Hacker News discussions

• Proton, a fast and lightweight alternative to Apache Flink (75 points, 45 comments, by jinqueeny, 2024-01-30)
• Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Kafka Passwords (50 points, 13 comments, by jovezhong, 2025-03-06)
• Show HN: Timeplus Proton 3.0 – First vectorized streaming SQL engine (11 points, 12 comments, by gangtao, 2025-10-22)
• Show HN: Open-Source C++ Apache Iceberg Client with Write Support (8 points, 3 comments, by jovezhong, 2025-03-20)
• Proton, extending the historical data, storage, and computing of ClickHouse (3 points, 0 comments, by jinqueeny, 2024-01-08)
• Proton OSS V3 – Fastest Vectorized Streaming Processing SQL Engine (3 points, 0 comments, by ZiliangXK, 2025-10-25)
• Proton, a unified database for streaming and historical data in a single binary (2 points, 2 comments, by jinqueeny, 2024-01-04)
• Hacking a Streaming Processor for 1BRC (2 points, 1 comments, by jovezhong, 2024-04-17)