Getting started with Records and Streams

Hello Community,

The Records and Streams APIs are now available for early adoption, with an expected announcement of Beta software maturity level in January 2025. 

Intended use cases for Records are the storage of high volumes of structured data such as Logs (i.e. Alarms and Events, Manufacturing Logs and Well Logs), and Historic Data.  The API is designed to handle hundreds of billions records per year, from various source systems.  Use cases that currently store historic data as Nodes in the industrial knowledge graph are excellent candidates for the use of the new API.

Early adoption means Cognite provides you access to pre-production APIs (and later SDKs) in return for engagement and feedback during the product development process.  By default, the APIs are not enabled in every customer project.

Early adoption intended to provide those customers who are interested in utilising the API functionality in their future plans, the ability to gain an understanding of the product concepts, provide feedback and help shape the final GA product to ensure its fitness for purpose.

Early adoption of an API is a non-trivial time investment, it will require some time to build code and experiment with the APIs features and capabilities, but it can also provide great insights into how best to use CDF to accomplish your solution goals.

Building of software intended for future production on top of pre-production APIs is expected, but the actual launch of software into production whilst our APIs are in pre-production is not advised.

If you are interested in becoming an early adopter, please reach out here and we will organise a short meeting to discuss your use case scenario, establish whether there is a product fit and agree on a plan.