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The Fifth Elephant 2026 Winter Edition

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Ganesh

@ganeshsivakumar

FlareDB: Apache Beam native streaming database

Submitted Oct 11, 2026

🎤 I am submitting: To speak I have a submission for: Showcase - a cool idea I have built/working on - 20 mins

Submission type:
Showcase

Session Overview:
FlareDB is an Apache Beam-native streaming database for running Beam data pipelines. It’s lightweight and requires fewer resources to run compared to Flink and Spark. It also makes computational results queryable without the need for an external database.

GitHub: https://github.com/flare-db/flare-db

This session introduces Apache Beam, explains how FlareDB works, and demonstrates running data pipelines on it.

Which audiences will benefit most from your session?
Data Engineers

Bio:
I work on FlareDB and contribute to Apache Beam. Previously, I worked as a Backend Engineer.

#database #stream-processing

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