Watch+95 this week9,291 · 825 forks

Real-time event streaming platform

Real, but not yet worth your team's attention.

Who it's for

Small teams with complex event data

What it replaces

Custom Kafka or ETL pipelines

The catch

Immature project with high open issue count

Your first hour

Explore RisingWave docs and examples

The numbers

Stars9,291
Forks825
Stars added (7d)+95
Open issues1,622
LanguageRust
LicenceApache-2.0
Last pushUpdated today
Project age5 years old

Maintainers describe it as: Event streaming platform for agentic AI. Continuously ingest, transform, and serve event streams in real time, at scale.

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risingwave, in short

Should a small team use risingwave?
Watch. Real, but not yet worth your team's attention. Small teams with complex event data
What does risingwave actually do?
Real-time event streaming platform
What does risingwave replace?
Custom Kafka or ETL pipelines
What is the downside of risingwave?
Immature project with high open issue count
Can risingwave be used in a commercial product?
Its licence is Apache-2.0, which is permissive and generally fine for commercial use. Confirm against the LICENSE file in the repository.

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Stars, forks, licence and last-push data from the public GitHub API, refreshed August 29, 2026. The verdict is NoizeOff's editorial opinion for a team of 2–20, not advice from the project's maintainers, and not legal advice on licensing. We are not affiliated with risingwavelabs.

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