# Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka Streams

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/nasdaq/nasdaq-cloud-data-service-ncds-kafka-streams/  
**Provider:** Nasdaq — https://apis.io/providers/nasdaq/  
**Base URL:** https://streams.ncds.nasdaq.com:9094  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService

Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS) — Kafka Streams is published by [Nasdaq](https://apis.io/providers/nasdaq/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Market Data, Kafka, Streaming, and Avro. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an AsyncAPI specification.

Real-time Nasdaq market data delivered over Apache Kafka (TLS) with SASL/OAUTHBEARER authentication against a Keycloak pro-realm token endpoint. Topics documented in the NCDS Java and Python SDKs: GIDS, NLSUTP, NLSCTA, NLSPLUS-UTP-V4, NLSPLUS-CTA-V4, NEWS-PRO-GLOBAL, UTPBIN-UF30. The full topic catalog is product-license-gated and delivered to subscribers during onboarding.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **GitHub** — https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService
- **SDKs** — https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService-SDK-Java
- **SDKs** — https://github.com/Nasdaq/NasdaqCloudDataService-SDK-Python
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasdaq/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/nasdaq-asyncapi.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasdaq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Market Data, Kafka, Streaming, Avro

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