Yingjun Wu is the founder and CEO of RisingWave Labs, a company building a distributed SQL database for stream processing, with over a decade of experience spanning academic research and large-scale production systems. In this episode we'll be sitting down for a coffee and a conversation with Yingjun's about what a streaming database actually is, how message brokers and streaming databases fit together in real-world architectures, and what his journey from database researcher to founder has taught him.
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Yingjun Wu on SQL-First Stream Processing - S2 Episode 3
I'm joined by Yingjun Wu, founder and CEO at RisingWave, for a conversation about streaming databases
Mar 11, 2026
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