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[roshanj]

You already mention Materialize -- have you looked at the SUBSCRIBE feature? https://materialize.com/docs/sql/subscribe/

It's fairly straightforward to write a websocket endpoint in whatever backend you have that issues a SUBSCRIBE query on connect and then continuously forwards the updates to the client. The complicated parts you'd need to build are on the frontend -- handling updates and merging them into whatever state you render from.

Disclaimer -- I work at Materialize -- but it does seem like the perfect fit for what you need (efficiently updated real-time materialized views).

[bruchim → roshanj]

Thanks! > It's fairly straightforward to write a websocket endpoint in whatever backend you have

It indeed solves half of the problem, but managing websockets for thousands of users is not that trivial IMO

[fernandotakai → bruchim]

you should try phoenix channels https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

they scale really really easily for millions of users.