Costs associated with deploying a streaming query according to one or more resiliency strategies given a particular service level agreement (SLA) specification are modeled to enable selection and/or recommendation of a particular resiliency strategy. A baseline cost model represents costs associated with deploying the streaming query non-resiliently. For each of any number of resiliency strategies, a resiliency model represents additional costs associated with deploying the streaming query according to a particular resiliency strategy.