Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Kafka Streams

Product categories

Analytics Automation Big Data Data Dashboard Data Integration Data Management Data Pipelines Databases ETL Stream Processing Web Service Automation Workflow Automation

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Kafka Streams are Apache Flink, Apache NiFi, and Apache Airflow. 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.

Apache Flink Landing Page
1

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 28 social mentions
Apache NiFi Landing Page
2

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
3

Apache Airflow

Airflow is a platform to programmaticaly author, schedule and monitor data pipelines.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Workflows #Workflow Automation #Data Pipelines 66 social mentions
Apache Kafka Landing Page
4

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source message broker project developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Data Integration #ETL 120 social mentions
Apache Storm Landing Page
5

Apache Storm

Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Big Data #Data Management #Databases 11 social mentions
Apache Spark Landing Page
6

Apache Spark

Apache Spark is an engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph processing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Databases #Big Data #Big Data Analytics 56 social mentions
Confluent Landing Page
7

Confluent

Confluent offers a real-time data platform built around Apache Kafka.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Big Data #Data Management 1 social mentions
Materialize Landing Page
8

Materialize

A Streaming Database for Real-Time Applications
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Database Tools #Databases #Relational Databases 65 social mentions
Benthos Landing Page
9

Benthos

Stream data processor written in golang with yaml pipeline configuration.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#ETL #Workflow Automation #Data Integration 22 social mentions
Arroyo Landing Page
10

Arroyo

Arroyo is the easiest way to run SQL queries against your real-time data in Kafka.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Application And Data #Data Stores #Stream Processing
Google BigQuery Landing Page
11

Google BigQuery

A fully managed data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Management #Data Warehousing #Data Dashboard 35 social mentions
Amazon SQS Landing Page
12

Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service is a fully managed message queuing service.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Data Integration #Web Service Automation 65 social mentions