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Stream-table duality
Stream-table duality: the principle that a data stream and a table are two views of the same data, formalized by Jay Kreps for Kafka. A stream is a table's changelog; a table is a stream's latest-value snapshot. Basis of CDC, log compaction, and KStream/KTable.
Streamer discharge
A streamer discharge is a transient gas discharge in which a thin, cold plasma channel grows through a gas as a propagating ionization front, forming the precursors of sparks and lightning.
Streamer University
Streamer University (Streamer U) is Kai Cenat's free, invitation-only, livestreamed creator bootcamp: 120 students per cohort, first held at the University of Akron in 2025, then Hendrix College in 2026, with a European Class of 2027 announced.
Streamflow reconstruction
Streamflow reconstruction is a paleohydrology method that uses tree-ring chronologies, calibrated against gauge records, to estimate annual river flows back over a thousand years, helping water managers assess drought risk.
Streaming algorithm
A streaming algorithm computes a function of a long data sequence in one pass, keeping a small summary called a sketch and returning an approximate answer.
Streaming database
Streaming database: a database whose tables are maintained continuously from event streams via registered materialized views, rooted in 1992 Tapestry continuous queries; computes results on write, unlike OLAP stores and batch warehouses.
Streaming media
Streaming media, also called online streaming, delivers video or audio over a network so playback starts before the full file transfers, covering on-demand libraries and live events.
Streaming model (algorithms)
The streaming model is a computational model where input arrives as a sequential stream and an algorithm with small memory processes it in one or a few passes.
Streaming party
A streaming party, known in Korean fandom slang as chonggong, is an organized K-pop fan campaign that mass-streams a song or video to push it up music charts.
Streaming SIMD Extensions
Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an x86 SIMD instruction set extension Intel introduced with the Pentium III in 1999, adding 70 instructions and eight 128-bit XMM registers.
Streaming Systems
Streaming systems process unbounded data continuously using event time, watermarks, windows, triggers, and exactly-once semantics, as codified in the 2015 Dataflow model and the 2018 O'Reilly book Streaming Systems by Akidau, Chernyak, and Lax.
Streaming telemetry
Streaming telemetry is a network monitoring approach in which devices push structured operational data continuously to collectors, typically over gNMI and gRPC, offering sub-second granularity compared with SNMP polling.
Streaming television
Streaming television delivers TV programs over the internet; also called OTT video. Distinguished from cable and broadcast by on-demand libraries, no set-top box, and business models such as SVOD, AVOD, TVOD, FAST, and vMVPD.
Streamlabs
Streamlabs is a live streaming software company owned by Logitech, founded in 2014 and known for its free broadcasting app Streamlabs Desktop, built on OBS Studio.
Streamlight
Streamlight is an American manufacturer of flashlights, lanterns, and weapon-mounted lights, founded in 1973 and headquartered in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, serving law enforcement, firefighting, and outdoor users.
Streamline Moderne
Streamline Moderne, also called Art Moderne, is a late phase of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s with rounded corners, horizontal lines, and glass block.
Streamlined Ventures
Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded by Ullas Naik, whose first fund was filed with the SEC in 2013.
Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines
Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines are the three standard families of curves used to visualize fluid flow: lines tangent to velocity, particle trajectories, and dye traces.
Streamlit
Streamlit is an open-source Python framework for building interactive web apps and data dashboards, founded in San Francisco in 2018 and owned by Snowflake since 2022.
STREAMS (traffic management system)
STREAMS is an integrated intelligent transport system platform developed by the Australian company Transmax, used by road authorities across six Australian jurisdictions from more than 13 traffic management centers.
StreamSets
StreamSets is a data-integration startup founded in 2014 that built a DataOps platform for data pipelines, acquired by Software AG for €524 million in 2022 and owned by IBM since 2024.
Streamwise vorticity
Streamwise vorticity is the component of vorticity parallel to the ambient wind. Tilted upward by storm updrafts, it creates the mesocyclone rotation that defines supercells.
Streamy Awards
The Streamy Awards (Streamys) are annual awards for original online video and its creators, founded in 2009 by Tubefilter's Drew Baldwin and Joshua Cohen, produced with dick clark productions, and judged by the Streamys Academy in 45-plus categories.
StreamYard
StreamYard is a browser-based live streaming and recording studio founded in 2018 in Oregon, sold to Hopin for $250 million in 2021 and to Bending Spoons in 2024.
Streatham
Streatham is a district in the London Borough of Lambeth, south London, on the A23. Former Surrey parish and 18th-century spa; 2.8 km High Road, Streatham Common, The Rookery, and London's only Olympic-sized ice rink.
Strebersdorf
Strebersdorf (Répcemicske), village in Lutzmannsburg, Burgenland, Austria; site of the largest Roman settlement landscape of Burgenland on the Amber Road, with military camps of the Ala Pannoniorum, a 7 ha vicus, and bog-iron smelting. A Vienna suburb shares the name.
Strecker amino acid synthesis
The Strecker amino acid synthesis, also called the Strecker reaction, prepares an α-amino acid from an aldehyde or ketone, ammonia, and hydrogen cyanide via an α-aminonitrile intermediate.
Stree (स्त्री) (2018 film)
Stree (स्त्री) is a 2018 Hindi horror-comedy directed by Amar Kaushik, starring Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor, based on the Nale Ba legend, set in Chanderi, and a Super Hit spawning the Maddock horror-comedy universe.
Stree 2
Stree 2: Sarkate Ka Aatank (स्त्री २) is a 2024 Hindi comedy-horror sequel to Stree, directed by Amar Kaushik, starring Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor, in which the headless demon Sarkata abducts women in Chanderi.
Street
A street is a public way in a town or city that provides space for movement and serves as the setting for buildings, commerce, and public life.