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Life & fun · June 13, 2018

Bistro Streams – A light-weight column-oriented stream analytics server

A general-purpose data analysis engine radically changing the way batch and stream data is processed - bistro/server at master · asavinov/bistro

Bistro Streams – A light-weight column-oriented stream analytics server launched on June 13, 2018 with 26 votes, #761 of 2,653 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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Bistro Streams is a lightweight, column-oriented server designed for stream analytics. Built for developers and data engineers who need efficient real-time data processing, it offers a columnar storage approach that optimizes query performance on streaming data. The project is open source and available on GitHub, making it accessible for teams looking to implement stream analytics without heavy infrastructure requirements.

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