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VideoOct 8, 202625 mins

From Seconds to Years: Building Full-Spectrum Analytics with StreamNative, Iceberg, and StarTree

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Session Overview

Discover how to bridge the gap between fresh, real-time events and years of historical lakehouse data. In this session, Chinmay Soman (VP of Product at StarTree) and Kundan Vyas (Director of Product & Partnerships at StreamNative) break down the architecture needed for full-spectrum analytics.

Learn how combining StreamNative, Apache Iceberg, and StarTree (Apache Pinot) enables sub-second query performance across both live streaming data and petabyte-scale historical archives—without costly duplicate pipelines or complex federation logic.

What You'll Learn

  • The core trade-offs between streaming systems and batch data warehouses
  • How to detect fraud and security anomalies by comparing real-time login activity against 90-day baselines
  • How StreamNative automates ingestion into Apache Iceberg and Databricks Unity Catalog
  • How StarTree and Apache Pinot execute unified queries across real-time and external lakehouse tables
  • Real-world architecture patterns for cost-efficient, low-latency analytics

Chapters

  • 00:00 — Introduction & what is full-spectrum analytics?
  • 01:05 — Streaming vs. batch data warehouses: the freshness and retention dilemma
  • 02:45 — Key use cases: security, fraud detection, and user behavior
  • 04:00 — The scenario: detecting credential stuffing & bot attacks
  • 05:35 — Core architectural requirements for unified analytics
  • 08:00 — StreamNative overview: Kafka, Apache Pulsar, and Ursa Lakehouse
  • 13:10 — Demo: streaming events into Apache Iceberg & Unity Catalog
  • 16:05 — StarTree & Apache Pinot architecture overview
  • 18:15 — Hybrid tables: combining real-time segments with external lakehouse data
  • 20:12 — How query federation and time boundaries work
  • 22:15 — Demo: querying hybrid tables & anomalous login dashboard
  • 24:35 — Summary and wrap-up

About Speaker

Chinmay Soman

Chinmay Soman Chinmay Soman is a founding engineer in StarTree, building real time analytics solutions at scale. Previously he led the streaming platform team at Uber for building a large scale, self-serve platform around messaging, stream processing and OLAP technologies. Before that, he worked at LinkedIn and IBM, focussing on distributed systems and security. He’s a PMC member of Apache Samza and a committer on Apache Pinot, Voldemort, uReplicator and AthenaX.

Kundan Vyas

Kundan Vyas Director, Product & Partnerships at StreamNative, owning the end-to-end cloud product portfolio across Serverless, Dedicated, and BYOC offerings for Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, and Agentic AI. Leads strategy and execution for lakehouse-native integrations with partners across Iceberg and Delta ecosystems, delivering AI-ready, real-time data platforms. Also owns global partnerships across cloud service providers, ISVs, and system integrators—driving co-build, co-sell, and go-to-market initiatives that accelerate customer adoption, expansion, and new logo growth.