Component references
One engine, isolated.
A component reference takes a single engine or store and answers the architect’s real questions: what it does, where it sits in the pipeline, what it composes with, and what breaks at scale. The surrounding pipeline is generic scaffolding — the accented step is the component the pattern is organized around. Not a full architecture; a building block.
Component reference
Dremio — semantic layer + Reflections
Engine-anchored architecture for organizations with mixed BI and security analytics on shared Iceberg data. Reflections pre-materialize the hot paths; the…
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Component reference
3.6×
Trino — federation breadth
Engine-anchored architecture for multi-region, multi-platform SOCs that cannot, or should not, centralize all data into one store. Federate first, then query…
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Component reference
<100ms
RisingWave — streaming threat detection
Engine-anchored architecture for SOCs that cannot afford batch latency. PostgreSQL-compatible streaming database; continuous SQL computation over Kafka and CDC…
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Component reference
40%
Cribl Search — query in place, never rehydrate
Engine-anchored architecture that queries telemetry directly in cheap object storage. Cribl Stream writes Parquet partitioned by date and source; Cribl Search…
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Component reference
$3.04K/mo
StarRocks + ClickHouse — engine specialization
Two engines reading the same Iceberg data, each pinned to the workload it measurably wins on. ClickHouse for scheduled queries (dashboards, alerts, sub-second…
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Component reference
$60/mo
Apache Spark — security data architecture
The batch-processing engine underneath dbt-on-lakehouse, OCSF normalization at TB/day, and ACID writes to Iceberg. Driver–executor parallelism, Catalyst…
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See how the pattern lands on your workload.
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