Confluent launches Streamhouse capabilities and Lightning Tables

Confluent has announced new Streamhouse capabilities and made Lightning Tables generally available on AWS as part of its Data Streaming Platform.

• The company said its Data Streaming Platform now adds Query as a fifth pillar, alongside Stream, Connect, Process, and Govern, to support a complete Streamhouse for AI agents, applications, and analytics.
• Lightning Tables is described as a read-only serving layer on Confluent Cloud that stores and materializes Apache Kafka data into current tables; the release cites Confluent internal testing performance metrics and includes customer examples from Accenture and Extend.
• The announcement is a first-time product announcement/update, not a recap of a prior deal; it also includes a quote from Shaun Clowes, General Manager, Confluent and Data, IBM and media contact details for IBM and Confluent.