Streaming
Kafka-compatible message brokers that applications produce to and consume from. One cluster per platform choice; they are interchangeable from your applications’ point of view (Kafka protocol), and differ in where the data is stored and who operates the platform:
| Platform | Page | In short |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Kafka | Apache Kafka | Fully open-source Kafka (Strimzi); your scaling and upgrades |
| Confluent for Kafka | Confluent (CFK) | Confluent Platform operated by its own Kubernetes operator |
| WarpStream | WarpStream | Kafka protocol on cloud object storage — near-zero storage cost |
| Redpanda | Redpanda (Preview) | Single-binary Kafka-compatible broker |
| AutoMQ | AutoMQ (Experimental) | Kafka on block + object storage tiering |