AI Agents Need More Than Kafka to See Your Data

Publishing events to Kafka is table stakes in 2026, but the state those events describe is still not queryable. A streaming SQL layer like RisingWave keeps materialized views continuously fresh so AI agents can read live state via SQL and MCP instead of replaying topics.

$ 2026.09.18 · 4 min read · #streaming-database

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AI Agents Need More Than Kafka to See Your Data

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