Works SQL Stream provides extensions to Apache Spark Structured Streaming, extending its reach with a set of hand-picked data sources and sinks. Apache Ignite is provided as structured streaming sink, and e.g. complements IoT (Deep) Analytics with a distributed in-memory SQL database.

Works SQL Stream e.g. facilitates the connection IoT Brokers to read sensor readings, intermediate application of Dataframe based business rule processing, SQL based aggregation & filtering, machine learning and also deep learning.