Redpanda

Kafka-compatible streaming platform without the JVM or ZooKeeper.

About Redpanda

In Redpanda’s own words: “Redpanda powers an Agentic Data Plane and Data Streaming platform for real-time performance, AI innovation, and simplified operations.”

People switching from Apache Kafka often consider Redpanda.

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