Best Real-Time Data Streaming Tools for Startups

IBM Streams

IBM

IBM Streams evaluates a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor — helping organizations spot opportunities and risks and make decisions in real-time. Make sense of your data, turning fast-moving volumes and varieties into insight with IBM® Streams. Streams evaluate a broad range of streaming data — unstructured text, video, audio, geospatial and sensor — helping organizations spot opportunities and risks as they happen. Combine Streams with other IBM Cloud Pak® for Data capabilities, built on an open, extensible architecture. Help enable data scientists to collaboratively build models to apply to stream flows, plus, analyze massive amounts of data in real-time. Acting upon your data and deriving true value is easier than ever.

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Apache Kafka

The Apache Software Foundation

Apache Kafka® is an open-source, distributed streaming platform. Scale production clusters up to a thousand brokers, trillions of messages per day, petabytes of data, hundreds of thousands of partitions. Elastically expand and contract storage and processing. Stretch clusters efficiently over availability zones or connect separate clusters across geographic regions. Process streams of events with joins, aggregations, filters, transformations, and more, using event-time and exactly-once processing. Kafka’s out-of-the-box Connect interface integrates with hundreds of event sources and event sinks including Postgres, JMS, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, and more. Read, write, and process streams of events in a vast array of programming languages.

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Geckoboard

Build and share real-time business dashboards without the hassle. Geckoboard integrates with over 80 tools to help you pull in your data and get a professional-looking dashboard in front of others in a matter of minutes. Create dashboards directly in your browser with a straightforward, drag-and-drop interface, and bring important numbers, metrics and KPIs out of lifeless reports. Geckoboard makes your key data more engaging for everyone, with visualizations that anyone can understand at a glance, and that update automatically to always stay up-to-date. When you're ready, share your dashboard with a link, invite your teammates, schedule email and Slack updates to go out automatically, or display it proudly in the office on a big screen or TV.

Starting Price: $35 per month

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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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Rockset

Real-Time Analytics on Raw Data. Live ingest from S3, Kafka, DynamoDB & more. Explore raw data as SQL tables. Build amazing data-driven applications & live dashboards in minutes. Rockset is a serverless search and analytics engine that powers real-time apps and live dashboards. Operate directly on raw data, including JSON, XML, CSV, Parquet, XLSX or PDF. Plug data from real-time streams, data lakes, databases, and data warehouses into Rockset. Ingest real-time data without building pipelines. Rockset continuously syncs new data as it lands in your data sources without the need for a fixed schema. Use familiar SQL, including joins, filters, and aggregations. It’s blazing fast, as Rockset automatically indexes all fields in your data. Serve fast queries that power the apps, microservices, live dashboards, and data science notebooks you build. Scale without worrying about servers, shards, or pagers.

Starting Price: Free

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Nussknacker

Nussknacker is a low-code visual tool for domain experts to define and run real-time decisioning algorithms instead of implementing them in the code. It serves where real-time actions on data have to be made: real-time marketing, fraud detection, Internet of Things, Customer 360, and Machine Learning inferring. An essential part of Nussknacker is a visual design tool for decision algorithms. It allows not-so-technical users – analysts or business people – to define decision logic in an imperative, easy-to-follow, and understandable way. Once authored, with a click of a button, scenarios are deployed for execution. And can be changed and redeployed anytime there’s a need. Nussknacker supports two processing modes: streaming and request-response. In streaming mode, it uses Kafka as its primary interface. It supports both stateful and stateless processing.

Starting Price: 0

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Aerospike

Aerospike is the global leader in next-generation, real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale. Aerospike enterprises overcome seemingly impossible data bottlenecks to compete and win with a fraction of the infrastructure complexity and cost of legacy NoSQL databases. Aerospike’s patented Hybrid Memory Architecture™ delivers an unbreakable competitive advantage by unlocking the full potential of modern hardware, delivering previously unimaginable value from vast amounts of data at the edge, to the core and in the cloud. Aerospike empowers customers to instantly fight fraud; dramatically increase shopping cart size; deploy global digital payment networks; and deliver instant, one-to-one personalization for millions of customers. Aerospike customers include Airtel, Banca d’Italia, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media and Wayfair. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with additional locations in London; Bengaluru, India; and Tel Aviv, Israel.

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SQLstream

Guavus, a Thales company

SQLstream ranks #1 for IoT stream processing & analytics (ABI Research). Used by Verizon, Walmart, Cisco, & Amazon, our technology powers applications across data centers, the cloud, & the edge. Thanks to sub-ms latency, SQLstream enables live dashboards, time-critical alerts, & real-time action. Smart cities can optimize traffic light timing or reroute ambulances & fire trucks. Security systems can shut down hackers & fraudsters right away. AI / ML models, trained by streaming sensor data, can predict equipment failures. With lightning performance, up to 13M rows / sec / CPU core, companies have drastically reduced their footprint & cost. Our efficient, in-memory processing permits operations at the edge that are otherwise impossible. Acquire, prepare, analyze, & act on data in any format from any source. Create pipelines in minutes not months with StreamLab, our interactive, low-code GUI dev environment. Export SQL scripts & deploy with the flexibility of Kubernetes.

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Memgraph

Memgraph offers a light and powerful graph platform comprising the Memgraph Graph Database, MAGE Library, and Memgraph Lab Visualization. Memgraph is a dynamic, lightweight graph database optimized for analyzing data, relationships, and dependencies quickly and efficiently. It comes with a rich suite of pre-built deep path traversal algorithms and a library of traditional, dynamic, and ML algorithms tailored for advanced graph analysis, making Memgraph an excellent choice in critical decision-making scenarios such as risk assessment (fraud detection, cybersecurity threat analysis, and criminal risk assessment), 360-degree data and network exploration (Identity and Access Management (IAM), Master Data Management (MDM), Bill of Materials (BOM)), and logistics and network optimization.

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Materialize

Materialize is a reactive database that delivers incremental view updates. We help developers easily build with streaming data using standard SQL. Materialize can connect to many different external sources of data without pre-processing. Connect directly to streaming sources like Kafka, Postgres databases, CDC, or historical sources of data like files or S3. Materialize allows you to query, join, and transform data sources in standard SQL - and presents the results as incrementally-updated Materialized views. Queries are maintained and continually updated as new data streams in. With incrementally-updated views, developers can easily build data visualizations or real-time applications. Building with streaming data can be as simple as writing a few lines of SQL.

Starting Price: $0.98 per hour

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Decodable

No more low level code and stitching together complex systems. Build and deploy pipelines in minutes with SQL. A data engineering service that makes it easy for developers and data engineers to build and deploy real-time data pipelines for data-driven applications. Pre-built connectors for messaging systems, storage systems, and database engines make it easy to connect and discover available data. For each connection you make, you get a stream to or from the system. With Decodable you can build your pipelines with SQL. Pipelines use streams to send data to, or receive data from, your connections. You can also use streams to connect pipelines together to handle the most complex processing tasks. Observe your pipelines to ensure data keeps flowing. Create curated streams for other teams. Define retention policies on streams to avoid data loss during external system failures. Real-time health and performance metrics let you know everything’s working.

Starting Price: $0.20 per task per hour

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Tinybird

Query and shape your data using Pipes, a new way to chain SQL queries inspired by Python Notebooks. Designed to reduce complexity without sacrificing performance. By splitting your query in different nodes you simplify development and maintenance. Activate your production-ready API endpoints with one click. Transformations occur on-the-fly so you will always work with the latest data. Share access securely to your data in one click and get fast and consistent results. Apart from providing monitoring tools, Tinybird scales linearly: don't worry about traffic spikes. Imagine if you could turn, in a matter of minutes, any Data Stream or CSV file into a fully secured real-time analytics API endpoint. We believe in high-frequency decision-making for all organizations in all industries including retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, government, advertising, entertainment, healthcare, and financial services.

Starting Price: $0.07 per processed GB

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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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Apache Doris

The Apache Software Foundation

Apache Doris is a modern data warehouse for real-time analytics. It delivers lightning-fast analytics on real-time data at scale. Push-based micro-batch and pull-based streaming data ingestion within a second. Storage engine with real-time upsert, append and pre-aggregation. Optimize for high-concurrency and high-throughput queries with columnar storage engine, MPP architecture, cost based query optimizer, vectorized execution engine. Federated querying of data lakes such as Hive, Iceberg and Hudi, and databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Compound data types such as Array, Map and JSON. Variant data type to support auto data type inference of JSON data. NGram bloomfilter and inverted index for text searches. Distributed design for linear scalability. Workload isolation and tiered storage for efficient resource management. Supports shared-nothing clusters as well as separation of storage and compute.

Starting Price: Free

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Yandex Data Streams

Yandex

Simplifies data exchange between components in microservice architectures. When used as a transport for microservices, it simplifies integration, increases reliability, and improves scaling. Read and write data in near real-time. Set data throughput and storage times to meet your needs. Enjoy granular configuration of the resources for processing data streams, from small streams of 100 KB/s to streams of 100 MB/s. Deliver a single stream to multiple targets with different retention policies using Yandex Data Transfer. Data is automatically replicated across multiple geographically distributed availability zones. Once created, you can manage data streams centrally in the management console or using the API. Yandex Data Streams can continuously collect data from sources like website browsing histories, application and system logs, and social media feeds. Yandex Data Streams is capable of continuously collecting data from sources such as website browsing histories, application logs, etc.

Starting Price: $0.086400 per GB

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Timeplus

Timeplus is a simple, powerful, and cost-efficient stream processing platform. All in a single binary, easily deployed anywhere. We help data teams process streaming and historical data quickly and intuitively, in organizations of all sizes and industries. Lightweight, single binary, without dependencies. End-to-end analytic streaming and historical functionalities. 1/10 the cost of similar open source frameworks. Turn real-time market and transaction data into real-time insights. Leverage append-only streams and key-value streams to monitor financial data. Implement real-time feature pipelines using Timeplus. One platform for all infrastructure logs, metrics, and traces, the three pillars supporting observability. In Timeplus, we support a wide range of data sources in our web console UI. You can also push data via REST API, or create external streams without copying data into Timeplus.

Starting Price: $199 per month

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SelectDB

SelectDB is a modern data warehouse based on Apache Doris, which supports rapid query analysis on large-scale real-time data. From Clickhouse to Apache Doris, to achieve the separation of the lake warehouse and upgrade to the lake warehouse. The fast-hand OLAP system carries nearly 1 billion query requests every day to provide data services for multiple scenes. Due to the problems of storage redundancy, resource seizure, complicated governance, and difficulty in querying and adjustment, the original lake warehouse separation architecture was decided to introduce Apache Doris lake warehouse, combined with Doris's materialized view rewriting ability and automated services, to achieve high-performance data query and flexible data governance. Write real-time data in seconds, and synchronize flow data from databases and data streams. Data storage engine for real-time update, real-time addition, and real-time pre-polymerization.

Starting Price: $0.22 per hour

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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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HarperDB

HarperDB is a distributed systems platform that combines database, caching, application, and streaming functions into a single technology. With it, you can start delivering global-scale back-end services with less effort, higher performance, and lower cost than ever before. Deploy user-programmed applications and pre-built add-ons on top of the data they depend on for a high throughput, ultra-low latency back end. Lightning-fast distributed database delivers orders of magnitude more throughput per second than popular NoSQL alternatives while providing limitless horizontal scale. Native real-time pub/sub communication and data processing via MQTT, WebSocket, and HTTP interfaces. HarperDB delivers powerful data-in-motion capabilities without layering in additional services like Kafka. Focus on features that move your business forward, not fighting complex infrastructure. You can't change the speed of light, but you can put less light between your users and their data.

Starting Price: Free

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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Databricks

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to use data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance, and is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the uniqueness of your data. The winners in every industry will be data and AI companies. From ETL to data warehousing to generative AI, Databricks helps you simplify and accelerate your data and AI goals. Databricks combines generative AI with the unification benefits of a lakehouse to power a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the unique semantics of your data. This allows the Databricks Platform to automatically optimize performance and manage infrastructure in ways unique to your business. The Data Intelligence Engine understands your organization’s language, so search and discovery of new data is as easy as asking a question like you would to a coworker.

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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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Confluent

Infinite retention for Apache Kafka® with Confluent. Be infrastructure-enabled, not infrastructure-restricted Legacy technologies require you to choose between being real-time or highly-scalable. Event streaming enables you to innovate and win - by being both real-time and highly-scalable. Ever wonder how your rideshare app analyzes massive amounts of data from multiple sources to calculate real-time ETA? Ever wonder how your credit card company analyzes millions of credit card transactions across the globe and sends fraud notifications in real-time? The answer is event streaming. Move to microservices. Enable your hybrid strategy through a persistent bridge to cloud. Break down silos to demonstrate compliance. Gain real-time, persistent event transport. The list is endless.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming

Oracle

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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Redpanda

Redpanda Data

Breakthrough data streaming capabilities that let you deliver customer experiences never before possible. Kafka API and ecosystem are compatible. Redpanda BulletPredictable low latencies with zero data loss. Redpanda BulletUpto 10x faster than Kafka. Redpanda BulletEnterprise-grade support and hotfixes. Redpanda BulletAutomated backups to S3/GCS. Redpanda Bullet100% freedom from routine Kafka operations. Redpanda BulletSupport for AWS and GCP. Redpanda was designed from the ground up to be easily installed to get streaming up and running quickly. After you see its power, put Redpanda to the test in production. Use the more advanced Redpanda features. We manage provisioning, monitoring, and upgrades. Without any access to your cloud credentials. Sensitive data never leaves your environment. Provisioned, operated, and maintained for you. Configurable instance types. Expand cluster as your needs grow.

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Leo

Turn your data into a realtime stream, making it immediately available and ready to use. Leo reduces the complexity of event sourcing by making it easy to create, visualize, monitor, and maintain your data flows. Once you unlock your data, you are no longer limited by the constraints of your legacy systems. Dramatically reduced dev time keeps your developers and stakeholders happy. Adopt microservice architectures to continuously innovate and improve agility. In reality, success with microservices is all about data. An organization must invest in a reliable and repeatable data backbone to make microservices a reality. Implement full-fledged search in your custom app. With data flowing, adding and maintaining a search database will not be a burden.

Starting Price: $251 per month

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Astra Streaming

DataStax

Responsive applications keep users engaged and developers inspired. Rise to meet these ever-increasing expectations with the DataStax Astra Streaming service platform. DataStax Astra Streaming is a cloud-native messaging and event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar. Astra Streaming allows you to build streaming applications on top of an elastically scalable, multi-cloud messaging and event streaming platform. Astra Streaming is powered by Apache Pulsar, the next-generation event streaming platform which provides a unified solution for streaming, queuing, pub/sub, and stream processing. Astra Streaming is a natural complement to Astra DB. Using Astra Streaming, existing Astra DB users can easily build real-time data pipelines into and out of their Astra DB instances. With Astra Streaming, avoid vendor lock-in and deploy on any of the major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) compatible with open-source Apache Pulsar.

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Insigna

The comprehensive solution for data management and real-time analytics.

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Estuary Flow

Estuary

Estuary Flow is a new kind of DataOps platform that empowers engineering teams to build real-time, data-intensive applications at scale with minimal friction. This platform unifies a team’s databases, pub/sub systems, and SaaS around their data, without requiring new investments in infrastructure or development.

Starting Price: $200/month

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Google Cloud Datastream

Google

Serverless and easy-to-use change data capture and replication service. Access to streaming data from MySQL, PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, SQL Server, and Oracle databases. Near real-time analytics in BigQuery. Easy-to-use setup with built-in secure connectivity for faster time-to-value. A serverless platform that automatically scales, with no resources to provision or manage. Log-based mechanism to reduce the load and potential disruption on source databases. Synchronize data across heterogeneous databases, storage systems, and applications reliably, with low latency, while minimizing impact on source performance. Get up and running fast with a serverless and easy-to-use service that seamlessly scales up or down, and has no infrastructure to manage. Connect and integrate data across your organization with the best of Google Cloud services like BigQuery, Spanner, Dataflow, and Data Fusion.

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TapData

CDC-based live data platform for heterogeneous database replication, real-time data integration, or building a real-time data warehouse. By using CDC to sync production line data stored in DB2 and Oracle to the modern database, TapData enabled an AI-augmented real-time dispatch software to optimize the semiconductor production line process. The real-time data made instant decision-making in the RTD software a possibility, leading to faster turnaround times and improved yield. As one of the largest telcos, customer has many regional systems that cater to the local customers. By syncing and aggregating data from various sources and locations into a centralized data store, customers were able to build an order center where the collective orders from many applications can now be aggregated. TapData seamlessly integrates inventory data from 500+ stores, providing real-time insights into stock levels and customer preferences, enhancing supply chain efficiency.

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Compare the Top Real-Time Data Streaming Tools for Startups as of November 2024

What are Real-Time Data Streaming Tools for Startups?

IBM Streams

Apache Kafka

Geckoboard

Aiven

Rockset

Nussknacker

Aerospike

SQLstream

Memgraph

Materialize

Decodable

Tinybird

DeltaStream

Apache Doris

Yandex Data Streams

Timeplus

SelectDB

WarpStream

HarperDB

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Striim

Confluent

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming

Redpanda

Leo

Astra Streaming

Insigna

Estuary Flow

Google Cloud Datastream

TapData