Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Apache Kafka

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Analytics App Development Application Performance Monitoring Automation Big Data Cloud Hosting Data Integration Developer Tools ETL Stream Processing Web Service Automation Workflow Automation

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Apache Kafka are RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon SQS. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

RabbitMQ Landing Page
1

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Web Service Automation #Stream Processing 1 social mentions
Apache ActiveMQ Landing Page
2

Apache ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is an open source messaging and integration patterns server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Stream Processing #Inventory Management 5 social mentions
Amazon SQS Landing Page
3

Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service is a fully managed message queuing service.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Stream Processing #Web Service Automation 64 social mentions
Apache Camel Landing Page
4

Apache Camel

Apache Camel is a versatile open-source integration framework based on known enterprise integration patterns.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #ETL #Open Source 12 social mentions
Apache NiFi Landing Page
5

Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Analytics #Web Analytics #Mobile Analytics 16 social mentions
Apache Airflow Landing Page
6

Apache Airflow

Airflow is a platform to programmaticaly author, schedule and monitor data pipelines.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Workflows #Workflow Automation #Data Pipelines 65 social mentions
ZeroMQ Landing Page
7

ZeroMQ

ZeroMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Stream Processing #Web Service Automation 35 social mentions
Apache Flink Landing Page
8

Apache Flink

Flink is a streaming dataflow engine that provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Big Data #Developer Tools 27 social mentions
Google Cloud Pub/Sub Landing Page
9

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Cloud Pub/Sub is a flexible, reliable, real-time messaging service for independent applications to publish & subscribe to asynchronous events.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Data Integration #Web Service Automation 15 social mentions
NATS Landing Page
10

NATS

NATS.io is an open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, Edge, and microservices architectures.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Queueing, Messaging And Background Processing #App Development 63 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
11

Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
Hangfire Landing Page
12

Hangfire

An easy way to perform background processing in .NET and .NET Core applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Stream Processing #Web Service Automation 5 social mentions