Running KSQL

As mentioned previously, KSQL is shipped with the Confluent Platform. When we start the Confluent Platform, automatically at the end it starts a KSQL server, as shown in the Figure 7 .1:

Figure 7.1: Confluent Platform startup

To start the KSQL server alone (not recommendable), we can use the ksql-server-start command. Just type ./ksql from the bin directory, as shown in Figure 7.2:

Figure 7.2: KSQL CLI start screen