Best Event Stream Processing Software for Apache Kafka

Compare the Top Event Stream Processing Software that integrates with Apache Kafka as of July 2025

This a list of Event Stream Processing software that integrates with Apache Kafka. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Apache Kafka. View the products that work with Apache Kafka in the table below.

What is Event Stream Processing Software for Apache Kafka?

Event stream processing software enables organizations to analyze and process data in real-time as it is generated, providing immediate insights and enabling quick decision-making. This software is designed to handle large volumes of streaming data, such as sensor data, transaction logs, social media feeds, or financial market data. Event stream processing software often includes features like real-time analytics, pattern detection, event filtering, and aggregation to identify trends or anomalies. It is widely used in applications such as fraud detection, predictive maintenance, supply chain management, and real-time analytics. Compare and read user reviews of the best Event Stream Processing software for Apache Kafka currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Ably

    Ably

    Ably

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale. Ably’s products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $49.99/month
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    Aiven

    Aiven

    Aiven

    Aiven manages your open source data infrastructure in the cloud - so you don't have to. Developers can do what they do best: create applications. We do what we do best: manage cloud data infrastructure. All solutions are open source. You can also freely move data between clouds or create multi-cloud environments. Know exactly how much you’ll be paying and why. We bundle networking, storage and basic support costs together. We are committed to keeping your Aiven software online. If there’s ever an issue, we’ll be there to fix it. Deploy a service on the Aiven platform in 10 minutes. Sign up - no credit card info needed. Select your open source service, and the cloud and region to deploy to. Choose your plan - you have $300 in free credits. Click "Create service" and go on to configure your data sources. Stay in control of your data using powerful open-source services.
    Starting Price: $200.00 per month
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    RudderStack

    RudderStack

    RudderStack

    RudderStack is the smart customer data pipeline. Easily build pipelines connecting your whole customer data stack, then make them smarter by pulling analysis from your data warehouse to trigger enrichment and activation in customer tools for identity stitching and other advanced use cases. Start building smarter customer data pipelines today.
    Starting Price: $750/month
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    kPow

    kPow

    Factor House

    We know how easy Apache Kafka® can be with the right tools. We built kPow to make the developer experience with Kafka simple and enjoyable, and to save businesses time and money while growing their Kafka expertise. kPow allows you to get to the heart of production issues in clicks, not hours. Search tens of thousands of messages a second with kPow’s powerful Data Inspect and kREPL functions. New to Kafka? kPow’s unique Kafka UI allows developers to quickly and easily understand core Kafka concepts and gotchas. Upskill new team members, and grow your internal Kafka expertise. kPow provides a suite of Kafka management and monitoring features in a single Docker Container or JAR file. Manage multiple clusters, schema registries, and connect installs with one instance.
    Starting Price: $2,650 per cluster per year
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    Instaclustr

    Instaclustr

    Instaclustr

    Instaclustr is the Open Source-as-a-Service company, delivering reliability at scale. We operate an automated, proven, and trusted managed environment, providing database, analytics, search, and messaging. We enable companies to focus internal development and operational resources on building cutting edge customer-facing applications. Instaclustr works with cloud providers including AWS, Heroku, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform. The company has SOC 2 certification and provides 24/7 customer support.
    Starting Price: $20 per node per month
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    PubSub+ Platform
    Solace PubSub+ Platform helps enterprises design, deploy and manage event-driven systems across hybrid and multi-cloud and IoT environments so they can be more event-driven and operate in real-time. The PubSub+ Platform includes the powerful PubSub+ Event Brokers, event management capabilities with PubSub+ Event Portal, as well as monitoring and integration capabilities all available via a single cloud console. PubSub+ allows easy creation of an event mesh, an interconnected network of event brokers, allowing for seamless and dynamic data movement across highly distributed network environments. PubSub+ Event Brokers can be deployed as fully managed cloud services, self-managed software in private cloud or on-premises environments, or as turnkey hardware appliances for unparalleled performance and low TCO. PubSub+ Event Portal is a complimentary toolset for design and governance of event-driven systems including both Solace and Kafka-based event broker environments.
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    Aiven for Apache Kafka
    Apache Kafka as a fully managed service, with zero vendor lock-in and a full set of capabilities to build your streaming pipeline. Set up fully managed Kafka in less than 10 minutes — directly from our web console or programmatically via our API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. Easily connect it to your existing tech stack with over 30 connectors, and feel confident in your setup with logs and metrics available out of the box via the service integrations. A fully managed distributed data streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and pipelines, stream analytics, and any other case where you need to move a lot of data between applications — and quickly. With Aiven’s hosted and managed-for-you Apache Kafka, you can set up clusters, deploy new nodes, migrate clouds, and upgrade existing versions — in a single mouse click — and monitor them through a simple dashboard.
    Starting Price: $200 per month
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    WarpStream

    WarpStream

    WarpStream

    WarpStream is an Apache Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage, with no inter-AZ networking costs, no disks to manage, and infinitely scalable, all within your VPC. WarpStream is deployed as a stateless and auto-scaling agent binary in your VPC with no local disks to manage. Agents stream data directly to and from object storage with no buffering on local disks and no data tiering. Create new “virtual clusters” in our control plane instantly. Support different environments, teams, or projects without managing any dedicated infrastructure. WarpStream is protocol compatible with Apache Kafka, so you can keep using all your favorite tools and software. No need to rewrite your application or use a proprietary SDK. Just change the URL in your favorite Kafka client library and start streaming. Never again have to choose between reliability and your budget.
    Starting Price: $2,987 per month
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    Lenses

    Lenses

    Lenses.io

    Enable everyone to discover and observe streaming data. Sharing, documenting and cataloging your data can increase productivity by up to 95%. Then from data, build apps for production use cases. Apply a data-centric security model to cover all the gaps of open source technology, and address data privacy. Provide secure and low-code data pipeline capabilities. Eliminate all darkness and offer unparalleled observability in data and apps. Unify your data mesh and data technologies and be confident with open source in production. Lenses is the highest rated product for real-time stream analytics according to independent third party reviews. With feedback from our community and thousands of engineering hours invested, we've built features that ensure you can focus on what drives value from your real time data. Deploy and run SQL-based real time applications over any Kafka Connect or Kubernetes infrastructure including AWS EKS.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Amazon MSK
    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. With Amazon MSK, you can use native Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes, stream changes to and from databases, and power machine learning and analytics applications. Apache Kafka clusters are challenging to setup, scale, and manage in production. When you run Apache Kafka on your own, you need to provision servers, configure Apache Kafka manually, replace servers when they fail, orchestrate server patches and upgrades, architect the cluster for high availability, ensure data is durably stored and secured, setup monitoring and alarms, and carefully plan scaling events to support load changes.
    Starting Price: $0.0543 per hour
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    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming
    Streaming service is a real-time, serverless, Apache Kafka-compatible event streaming platform for developers and data scientists. Streaming is tightly integrated with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Database, GoldenGate, and Integration Cloud. The service also provides out-of-the-box integrations for hundreds of third-party products across categories such as DevOps, databases, big data, and SaaS applications. Data engineers can easily set up and operate big data pipelines. Oracle handles all infrastructure and platform management for event streaming, including provisioning, scaling, and security patching. With the help of consumer groups, Streaming can provide state management for thousands of consumers. This helps developers easily build applications at scale.
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    DeltaStream

    DeltaStream

    DeltaStream

    DeltaStream is a unified serverless stream processing platform that integrates with streaming storage services. Think about it as the compute layer on top of your streaming storage. It provides functionalities of streaming analytics(Stream processing) and streaming databases along with additional features to provide a complete platform to manage, process, secure and share streaming data. DeltaStream provides a SQL based interface where you can easily create stream processing applications such as streaming pipelines, materialized views, microservices and many more. It has a pluggable processing engine and currently uses Apache Flink as its primary stream processing engine. DeltaStream is more than just a query processing layer on top of Kafka or Kinesis. It brings relational database concepts to the data streaming world, including namespacing and role based access control enabling you to securely access, process and share your streaming data regardless of where they are stored.
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    Pathway

    Pathway

    Pathway

    Pathway is a Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG. Pathway comes with an easy-to-use Python API, allowing you to seamlessly integrate your favorite Python ML libraries. Pathway code is versatile and robust: you can use it in both development and production environments, handling both batch and streaming data effectively. The same code can be used for local development, CI/CD tests, running batch jobs, handling stream replays, and processing data streams. Pathway is powered by a scalable Rust engine based on Differential Dataflow and performs incremental computation. Your Pathway code, despite being written in Python, is run by the Rust engine, enabling multithreading, multiprocessing, and distributed computations. All the pipeline is kept in memory and can be easily deployed with Docker and Kubernetes.
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    Striim

    Striim

    Striim

    Data integration for your hybrid cloud. Modern, reliable data integration across your private and public cloud. All in real-time with change data capture and data streams. Built by the executive & technical team from GoldenGate Software, Striim brings decades of experience in mission-critical enterprise workloads. Striim scales out as a distributed platform in your environment or in the cloud. Scalability is fully configurable by your team. Striim is fully secure with HIPAA and GDPR compliance. Built ground up for modern enterprise workloads in the cloud or on-premise. Drag and drop to create data flows between your sources and targets. Process, enrich, and analyze your streaming data with real-time SQL queries.
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    Eclipse Streamsheets
    Build professional applications to automate workflows, continuously monitor operations, and control processes in real-time. Your solutions run 24/7 on servers in the cloud and on the edge. Thanks to the spreadsheet user interface, you do not have to be a software developer. Instead of writing program code, you drag-and-drop data, fill cells with formulas, and design charts in a way you already know. Find all necessary protocols on board that you need to connect to sensors, and machines like MQTT, REST, and OPC UA. Streamsheets is native to stream data processing like MQTT and kafka. Pick up a topic stream, transform it and blast it back out into the endless streaming world. REST opens you the world, Streamsheets let you connect to any web service or let them connect to you. Streamsheets run in the cloud, on your servers, but also on edge devices like a Raspberry Pi.
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    IBM Event Streams
    IBM Event Streams is a fully managed event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka, designed to help enterprises process and respond to real-time data streams. With capabilities for machine learning integration, high availability, and secure cloud deployment, it enables organizations to create intelligent applications that react to events as they happen. The platform supports multi-cloud environments, disaster recovery, and geo-replication, making it ideal for mission-critical workloads. IBM Event Streams simplifies building and scaling real-time, event-driven solutions, ensuring data is processed quickly and efficiently.
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    Red Hat OpenShift Streams
    Red Hat® OpenShift® Streams for Apache Kafka is a managed cloud service that provides a streamlined developer experience for building, deploying, and scaling new cloud-native applications or modernizing existing systems. Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka makes it easy to create, discover, and connect to real-time data streams no matter where they are deployed. Streams are a key component for delivering event-driven and data analytics applications. The combination of seamless operations across distributed microservices, large data transfer volumes, and managed operations allows teams to focus on team strengths, speed up time to value, and lower operational costs. OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka includes a Kafka ecosystem and is part of a family of cloud services—and the Red Hat OpenShift product family—which helps you build a wide range of data-driven solutions.
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    Arroyo

    Arroyo

    Arroyo

    Scale from zero to millions of events per second. Arroyo ships as a single, compact binary. Run locally on MacOS or Linux for development, and deploy to production with Docker or Kubernetes. Arroyo is a new kind of stream processing engine, built from the ground up to make real-time easier than batch. Arroyo was designed from the start so that anyone with SQL experience can build reliable, efficient, and correct streaming pipelines. Data scientists and engineers can build end-to-end real-time applications, models, and dashboards, without a separate team of streaming experts. Transform, filter, aggregate, and join data streams by writing SQL, with sub-second results. Your streaming pipelines shouldn't page someone just because Kubernetes decided to reschedule your pods. Arroyo is built to run in modern, elastic cloud environments, from simple container runtimes like Fargate to large, distributed deployments on the Kubernetes logo Kubernetes.
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    Axual

    Axual

    Axual

    Axual is Kafka-as-a-Service for DevOps teams. Empower your team to unlock insights and drive decisions with our intuitive Kafka platform. Axual offers the ultimate solution for enterprises looking to seamlessly integrate data streaming into their core IT infrastructure. Our all-in-one Kafka platform is designed to eliminate the need for extensive technical knowledge or skills, and provides a ready-made solution that delivers all the benefits of event streaming without the hassle. The Axual Platform is a all-in-one solution, designed to help you simplify and enhance the deployment, management, and utilization of real-time data streaming with Apache Kafka. By providing an array of features that cater to the diverse needs of modern enterprises, the Axual Platform enables organizations to harness the full potential of data streaming while minimizing complexity and operational overhead.
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    Conduktor

    Conduktor

    Conduktor

    We created Conduktor, the all-in-one friendly interface to work with the Apache Kafka ecosystem. Develop and manage Apache Kafka with confidence. With Conduktor DevTools, the all-in-one Apache Kafka desktop client. Develop and manage Apache Kafka with confidence, and save time for your entire team. Apache Kafka is hard to learn and to use. Made by Kafka lovers, Conduktor best-in-class user experience is loved by developers. Conduktor offers more than just an interface over Apache Kafka. It provides you and your teams the control of your whole data pipeline, thanks to our integration with most technologies around Apache Kafka. Provide you and your teams the most complete tool on top of Apache Kafka.
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    Precisely Connect
    Integrate data seamlessly from legacy systems into next-gen cloud and data platforms with one solution. Connect helps you take control of your data from mainframe to cloud. Integrate data through batch and real-time ingestion for advanced analytics, comprehensive machine learning and seamless data migration. Connect leverages the expertise Precisely has built over decades as a leader in mainframe sort and IBM i data availability and security to lead the industry in accessing and integrating complex data. Access to all your enterprise data for the most critical business projects is ensured by support for a wide range of sources and targets for all your ELT and CDC needs.
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