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Cloudflare Data Platform Is Now Basin, and It's GA!

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Hi, Shii-chan here! A whole data analytics platform just went GA under a new name!

Cloudflare Changelog developers.cloudflare.com

What was announced?

The Cloudflare Changelog announced that the former Cloudflare Data Platform is now generally available as Basin. It is an end-to-end analytics platform: you collect data from apps, infrastructure, devices, and other Cloudflare services, then query it.

The story so far

These pieces used to ship under separate names.

  • Cloudflare Pipelines is now Basin Pipelines
  • R2 Data Catalog is now Basin Catalog
  • R2 SQL is now Basin SQL

What changes

Ingestion, table management, and querying now live under one brand on the Developer Platform. Legacy resources keep working during a deprecation period.

Dive Deep

Basin Pipelines

It ingests events from Workers, HTTP endpoints, and Cloudflare Logpush, transforms them with SQL, and writes them to Iceberg tables or files on R2.

  • Ingest application and device events through HTTP endpoints or Workers bindings
  • Filter and reshape Cloudflare logs before storing them as Iceberg tables, Parquet, or JSON
  • Catch schema mismatches with typed bindings and investigate dropped events in the dashboard

Basin Catalog

It manages and automatically maintains Apache Iceberg tables.

  • Connect DuckDB, Spark, Snowflake, or PyIceberg to the same tables
  • Maintain growing tables with compaction, snapshot expiration, and manifest optimization
  • Share analytical data across tools and clouds without paying egress fees

Basin SQL

A serverless, distributed SQL engine for querying large Iceberg tables in Basin Catalog without managing compute.

  • Summarize and rank data with standard and approximate aggregates, grouping sets, and window functions
  • Combine datasets with joins, subqueries, common table expressions, and set operations
  • Transform data with more than 190 functions

Wrap-up

  • The former Data Platform is GA as Basin
  • Three components: Pipelines, Catalog, and SQL
  • Iceberg-compatible engines can use the same tables
  • Legacy resources keep working during the deprecation period

This is for anyone who found building a data lake by hand too much work!

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