SQL Stream Builder architecture

The SQL Stream Builder (SSB) service is integrated on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) and connected to Flink and its services. The SSB architecture includes Streaming SQL Console, SQL Stream Engine and Materialized View Engine. These main components within SSB are responsible for executing jobs, populating topics, creating metadata and querying data that happens in the background.

When a Materialized View query is submitted, Flink generates the data to the Materialized View database from which the Materialized View Engine queries the required data.

The primary point of user interaction for SQL Stream Builder is the Console component. When you submit a query using the Streaming SQL Console, a Flink job is automatically created in the background on the cluster. SSB also requires a Kafka service on the same cluster. This mandatory Kafka service is used to automatically populate topics for the websocket output. The websocket output is needed for sampling data to the Console, and when no table is added to output the results of the SQL query.