Case Study: Q6 Cyber achieves scalable threat intelligence processing with StreamNative and Apache Pulsar

How Q6 Cyber Tamed 85+ Billion Cyberthreat Records with Apache Pulsar & StreamNative

Q6 Cyber, a provider of threat intelligence for financial fraud prevention, needed to scale beyond 85 billion cyberthreat records while dealing with throughput limits in Google Cloud Pub/Sub, an overburdened OpenSearch cluster, and strict infrastructure control requirements. To support its growing data volumes and planned shift to a data lake architecture, the company turned to StreamNative and Apache Pulsar, including StreamNative Cloud with BYOC.

StreamNative implemented Pulsar as the central messaging layer for Q6 Cyber’s data architecture, adding high-throughput ingestion, native schema management, and Pulsar Functions for lightweight processing. The new platform delivered more consistent performance during traffic spikes, improved reliability and flexibility, and positioned Q6 Cyber to migrate tens of billions of records to a data lake while maintaining operational continuity and stronger data quality.

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Jeff Boelle

Chief Technology Officer