EngineeringMay 27, 2026 6 min read

Beyond SQL: Kafka, OpenSearch, NATS, CouchDB, and ClickHouse

Felipe Marcopito
Felipe Marcopito
CEO & Co-founder

The same Hubseat Cloud control plane for search, streaming, document, and analytics workloads — not only relational databases.

Modern platforms rarely stop at one database. Hubseat Cloud ships **managed engines** for search, messaging, documents, and analytics alongside PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Redis.

OpenSearch

Run **OpenSearch** for log analytics, full-text search, and observability backends — provisioned with the same project scoping as your applications.

Kafka and NATS

**Kafka** fits high-throughput event streams and pipeline integrations. **NATS** excels at lightweight messaging and service mesh-style patterns. Both are available without maintaining separate control planes per vendor.

CouchDB and ClickHouse

**CouchDB** supports document-oriented sync-friendly workloads. **ClickHouse** targets analytical queries over large datasets. Choosing the right engine stays a product decision; operating it should not require a different platform team.

One operational habit

Whichever engine you pick, the habit is the same: provision in the right environment, connect through authenticated tooling (including **Hubseat Desktop** for local ports), and keep secrets out of informal channels.