Top 10 Apache Kafka Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Apache Kafka Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Confluent
By Confluent
4.4/5
(112)
Product Description
A stream data platform.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, Confluent is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Event Stream Processing
Stream Analytics

Google Cloud Pub/Sub
By Google
4.5/5
(37)
Product Description
Google's Cloud Pub/Sub is a simple, reliable, scalable foundation for stream analytics and event-driven computing systems.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub is:
Better at support
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Message Queue (MQ)
Stream Analytics

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
By Salesforce
4.5/5
(713)
Product Description
Anypoint Platform™ is a complete platform that lets companies realize business transformation through API-led connectivity. It is is a unified, flexible integration platform that solves the most challenging connectivity problems across SOA, SaaS and APIs.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Message Queue (MQ)
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4.3/5
(89)
Product Description
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Event Stream Processing
Stream Analytics

Azure Logic Apps
By Microsoft
4.3/5
(102)
Product Description
Azure Logic Apps provides a way to simplify and implement scalable integrations and workflows in the cloud. It provides a visual designer to model and automate your process as a series of steps known as a workflow
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, Azure Logic Apps is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Message Queue (MQ)

RabbitMQ
By Broadcom
4.1/5
(47)
Product Description
Messaging that just works
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to admin
Better at support
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Message Queue (MQ)

Google Cloud Dataflow
By Google
4.2/5
(44)
Product Description
Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for transforming and enriching data in stream (real time) and batch (historical) modes with equal reliability and expressiveness.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Dataflow is:
More expensive
Easier to do business with
Better at support
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Event Stream Processing

Amazon MQ
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
3.6/5
(18)
Product Description
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ is:
More expensive
Easier to admin
Better at support
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Message Queue (MQ)

Azure Event Hubs
By Microsoft
4.2/5
(13)
Product Description
Azure Event Hubs is a scalable data streaming platform and event ingestion service, capable of receiving and processing millions of events per second. Event Hubs processes and stores events, data, or telemetry produced by distributed software and devices.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Apache Kafka:
Stream Analytics

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