I appreciate Redpanda Streaming for its ease of use in terms of setup and Kafka topic management, ACL management, and schema registry. The easy-to-define setup through the Redpanda web console is a big plus. I also like being able to access the APIs using the rpk tool, which provides a seamless CI/CD experience. The fast initial setup is complemented by the extensive and great documentation curated by the Redpanda team. I find the documents AI feature particularly useful as it makes it easy to search for information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to set the broker node IP addresses as static from the get-go for the BYOC architecture. Ability to have basic features for networking and security such as CIDR ranges to pick and IP whitelisting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I operate self-hosted environments of Redpanda and appreciate the it consists of a single binary and a single configuration file, rpk is a very versatile tool and I don't need to resort to CURL commands or scripts, it's all inside rpk.

Receiving support is quick and they are always very proactive, helpful and customer success minded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some error messages could be more descriptive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Redpanda is a single binary. Much easier to install, update, and manage a cluster compared to kafka. Performance is good. The console is full featured and easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product maturity seems to be lacking. Many enterprise level features are still very new and unproven. Bugs are introduced in new versions. Many features appear to work well in predictable cloud environments, but not in self-hosted deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really appreciate that Redpanda Streaming is fully Kafka compatible, making it easier to deploy and achieve high performance. The responsive support is a big plus, and I enjoy the nice UI. It's also a boon that Redpanda's performance and reliability are a lot better compared to the previous system we used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support for Go clients leaves something to be desired, as the franz-go client often has trouble during leadership changes and coordinator transfers, causing clients to be stuck or lag. It's hard to determine if this is due to a Redpanda bug or a client-side issue. Additionally, the pricing model recently changed for the worse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open source and straight to the point, with excellent performance for very common use cases.

Their integrations and massive component library is basically batteries-included for everything that you need. Pricing is decent, but the support has it comes with has been excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bloblang is incredibly powerful and flexible, but performance is unideal. Then again, I haven't compared it to any other alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Redpanda connectors work great and there is a great support from the account management and technical team, which is always willing to resolve doubts and escalate situations that require more attention on timely manner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In one specific case, a connector was using a data type that apparently wasn’t properly tested in the new version of Redpanda being released, and it ended up causing issues in our development environment, but then it was resolved accordingly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BYOC, along with the excellent support, is helping us scale our systems stress-free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don’t see any real downsides, but you do need to bring your own operational expertise around Kafka. As with any solution, without that experience it’s easy to architect yourself into something painfully inadequate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is better than other solutions I have worked with. The support team helps a lot in reducing integration and maintainance pain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We had some events that cuased performance degradation compared to other solutions we used before in which that was never an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My favorite part of Redpanda streaming is the user experience and support. It is easy to deploy and monitor. The support from the team and the turnaround time for incidents/issues have been exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of integrations as compared to OS Kafka Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The speed is much higher than Apache Kafka. The simplicity of deployment plus its stability makes it a real winner. Being Kafka compliant also allows us access to wide range of existing tooling.

The quality of the support staff also makes dealing with Redpanda a joy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish they had long term support releases that would be supported for three years or more. The release cycle is quite rapid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.