G2

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/5/2026

"Lightweight, Cost-Efficient Streaming with Tiered Storage and Responsive Support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Redpanda Data Platform?

- Lower resources requirements than of the kafka cluster of the same capacity

- Tier storage support. Offloading local data to S3/GCS is very handy as allows to not pay for the huge local disks in order to maintain longer data retention periods

- Very capable as a streaming application - we run it slightly above the recommended tier limit (on the production side) and the clusters can handle it with no sweat

- Quick and responsive support, including cases that require deep tech investigations. It helps a lot that the maintainer of franz-go (best kafka client for golang works for Redpanda)

- The app itself is lightweight and works well for the integration testing using test containers

- Support of google as auth provider for user management, allows to avoid 3rd party accounts on top of ones already existing in the organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data Platform?

From a technical perspective - nothing. It works well and we're glad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?

Straight queue-like data streaming. We're pushing (and consuming) 1.1 GB per second with 4 days retention through a Redpanda cluster and the cluster works in a manner that we don't think about it and we don't need to maintain it. We just know that it's up-to-date and maintained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.