Confluent adds Query to its platform - and Streamhouse gets its missing piece
A couple of weeks ago I outlined how Confluent, alongside some of its competitors, had formed the Streamhouse Working Group to back an open, vendor-neutral Streamhouse category. A Streamhouse is a data architecture that aims to keep the current state of a business - where an order is, whether a payment has cleared, etc - continuously available to applications, analytics and AI agents.
At the time, Peter Pugh-Jones, Confluent’s EMEA CDO, told me that the working group was established after noticing that customers were already building Streamhouses themselves. Customers were, essentially, streaming data through the Confluent platform, but then realizing that they needed to add ‘some sort of database’ at the end. At the time, Confluent hadn’t answered that product gap itself.
However, at the Current 2026 conference in San Francisco this week, Confluent - now an IBM company - added the final piece. It has added a new capability,...
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