Stream processing engine

Apache Flink is a distributed processing engine designed for both high-throughput, low-latency data streams and finite batch workloads. It functions as a stateful stream processor and a SQL stream processing engine, providing a unified runtime to execute relational queries and event-based transformations. The system is distinguished by its ability to manage persistent operator state to ensure exactly-once processing guarantees and consistency during failures. It features specialized capabilities for complex event processing to detect temporal patterns and handles out-of-order events using eve

Pathway is a high-performance data processing framework designed for building unified batch and streaming pipelines. It functions as an orchestrator for complex data transformations, utilizing a differential dataflow engine to process updates incrementally. By treating static datasets and continuous event streams with identical logic, the platform ensures exactly-once processing semantics and consistent results across diverse data sources. The framework distinguishes itself through its specialized support for real-time artificial intelligence and retrieval-augmented generation. It features in

Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform designed for capturing, storing, and processing real-time data streams across interconnected nodes. It functions as a distributed commit log, providing a fault-tolerant storage mechanism that records state changes sequentially to ensure data consistency and durability across distributed environments. The platform distinguishes itself through a partitioned commit log architecture that enables horizontal scaling and parallel processing of data streams. It integrates a stream processing engine for continuous transformations and aggregations, while

Arroyo is a high-performance stream processing platform built in Rust. It executes continuous SQL queries on streaming data with event-time semantics, enabling accurate windowed aggregations, joins, and stateful computations on unbounded event streams. The platform uses native Rust execution for high throughput and low latency, with periodic checkpointing for exactly-once fault tolerance and horizontal scaling across distributed workers. The system integrates deeply with Kafka for reading and writing topics with exactly-once delivery and supports change data capture (CDC) from MySQL and Postg

Apache Storm is a distributed stream processing framework and real-time data processing engine. It functions as a fault-tolerant distributed computing system designed to analyze data in motion across a cluster of machines for continuous stream computation. The system enables the creation of fault-tolerant data pipelines and scalable event processing by distributing workloads across a network of computing nodes. This architecture ensures low latency and high throughput for live data while allowing the system to recover automatically from individual node failures. The framework provides capabi

Redpanda is a distributed event streaming engine designed to serve as a high-performance, drop-in replacement for existing event-driven architectures. It provides a foundation for building and scaling applications that require reliable data movement, analytical querying, and strict operational compliance across both cloud and self-managed environments. The platform distinguishes itself through a shared-nothing architecture that utilizes thread-per-core execution and a non-blocking asynchronous input/output engine to maximize throughput. It maintains data consistency through a consensus-based

This project is a streaming data integration framework that captures real-time database changes and synchronizes them with downstream systems. It operates as a distributed streaming ETL and database synchronizer, reading database logs and snapshots to propagate row-level modifications to target sinks. The system supports declarative data integration, allowing users to define source-to-sink data flows using SQL or YAML configurations. It distinguishes itself by automating schema evolution to maintain synchronization when source structures change and ensuring exactly-once delivery and processin

jStorm is a distributed stream processing engine designed for executing low-latency computations on high-volume data streams using Apache Storm topologies. It functions as a real-time data analytics platform and distributed task orchestrator that manages complex data pipelines via directed acyclic graph execution. The system provides a scalable framework for data pipeline management, incorporating backpressure-aware flow control to regulate ingestion rates and dynamic resource allocation to adjust computing resources based on real-time demand. It maintains compatibility with Apache Storm conf

Fluvio is a distributed event streaming platform and cloud-native streaming engine designed for collecting, persisting, and replicating real-time data streams across a distributed cluster. It functions as a real-time data pipeline for building stateful workflows that ingest, enrich, and export data between external sources and sinks. The platform is distinguished by its use of WebAssembly to execute compiled modules for in-line data transformations and filtering. This allows for the execution of custom business logic to reshape information in motion without requiring a restart of the cluster.

RocketMQ is a cloud-native distributed messaging platform and streaming engine. It functions as a distributed transactional queue that ensures atomicity between local transactions and message delivery, and serves as an MQTT IoT message broker to bridge lightweight device traffic into high-performance data streams. The system is distinguished by a Kubernetes-native architecture that decouples compute from storage to allow independent scaling of traffic and data retention. It utilizes a tiered storage model to offload older data to remote storage and employs quorum-based replication and automat

Apache Beam is a distributed data pipeline framework and unified data processing model designed to handle both bounded batch data and unbounded real-time streams. It provides a system for building scalable, data-parallel workflows that operate across compute clusters using a single programming model. The framework utilizes a cross-runner pipeline abstraction that decouples the data processing logic from the underlying execution backend, allowing the same pipeline to run on different distributed compute engines. It supports multi-language pipeline development by translating high-level code fro

RisingWave is a cloud-native streaming database and real-time analytics engine that uses standard SQL to process continuous data streams. It functions as a streaming data lakehouse, combining the capabilities of a streaming SQL database with a platform that integrates streaming ingestion with open table formats. The system is distinguished by its use of the PostgreSQL wire protocol, allowing it to integrate with existing SQL tools and drivers. It employs a decoupled compute and storage architecture, persisting streaming state and materialized views in cloud object storage to enable independen

RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform designed for building event-driven applications. It serves as middleware to decouple services using publish-subscribe and request-reply patterns, and functions as a transactional messaging system that ensures atomicity by linking message delivery to local transaction outcomes. The platform includes specialized capabilities as a Kubernetes-native message broker for container orchestration environments and an MQTT broker for ingesting event data from mobile applications and hardware terminals. The system covers high-throughput data str

Faust is a Python library for building distributed stream processing applications that integrate with Kafka. It functions as an asynchronous stream processor designed to handle high-throughput event streams and real-time data analysis using asynchronous functions. The system operates as a distributed stream processor and state store, utilizing sharding and partitioned topics to scale processing workloads horizontally across multiple worker nodes. It maintains state through a replicated key-value storage system backed by local databases to ensure high availability and fast recovery. The frame

This project is a data processing engine and AI application platform designed for building production-grade machine learning workflows. It provides a unified programming model that handles both historical batch data and live stream ingestion, enabling the development of real-time ETL pipelines and scalable data transformation workflows. The framework distinguishes itself through differential dataflow execution, which propagates only changes through a pipeline rather than recomputing entire datasets. It supports distributed state management across worker nodes and utilizes incremental stream p

Riemann is a Clojure-based event stream processor and real-time analytics engine. It functions as a network telemetry pipeline and extensible event router that ingests, transforms, and routes event data from distributed systems. The system uses a domain-specific language to compute metrics and statistical patterns over continuous streams, enabling network trend analysis and real-time alerting. It supports dynamic plugin loading from the classpath and allows for live configuration reloading without interrupting active event streams. Capabilities include centralized telemetry aggregation, even

Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native distributed pub-sub messaging system designed for high-performance data ingestion. It functions as a geo-replicated data streamer and a multi-tenant event streaming platform, providing a serverless stream processing engine and a tiered storage messaging broker. The system distinguishes itself by separating serving layers from storage layers to allow independent scaling of compute and data retention. It features native geo-replication to synchronize messages across different geographical regions and employs a multi-layered tenant isolation model using authentica

Storm is a distributed stream processing framework designed to execute unbounded computations across a cluster to process real-time data streams. It functions as a data pipeline orchestrator that allows users to define and deploy declarative data flow graphs connecting streaming sources to processing components. The system operates as a multi-tenant distributed compute engine that isolates workloads and limits resource usage across shared clusters using dedicated pools and access control. It is also a secure distributed processing engine that employs encrypted node communication and SSL-secur

Apache Spark is a unified distributed data processing engine designed for large-scale data analysis and computation graphs. It functions as a distributed machine learning framework, a graph processing system, a real-time stream processor, and a SQL analytics engine. The system enables the execution of distributed SQL querying, large-scale graph analysis, and real-time stream analytics across clusters of machines. It also provides a scalable environment for implementing machine learning algorithms and predictive model development on massive datasets. The engine incorporates relational query e

Hazelcast is a distributed data platform that combines an in-memory data grid with a stream processing engine to support real-time analytics and event-driven applications. It functions as a partitioned, distributed key-value store that replicates data across cluster nodes to provide low-latency access and high availability. The platform also serves as a distributed SQL query engine, allowing users to execute standard SQL statements against both in-memory datasets and external data sources. What distinguishes Hazelcast is its use of a distributed consensus subsystem to maintain strongly consis

Apache NiFi is a flow-based programming platform that enables the visual design, monitoring, and management of data pipelines. At its core, it provides a web-based visual dataflow designer where users build directed graphs of processors to route, transform, and mediate data movement between any source and destination without writing custom code. The system records fine-grained data provenance for every data item from ingestion to delivery, supporting audit, debugging, and replay of data lineage. The platform distinguishes itself through a zero-master cluster architecture that distributes proc

Mirror of Apache Samza

Flink streaming platform web is an administrative management platform and web console designed to build, configure, deploy, and monitor real-time data streaming pipelines and SQL queries. It operates as a centralized web interface for managing stream processing tasks, state recovery, and cluster deployments without requiring raw code writing. The platform provides comprehensive stream processing capabilities including change data capture ingestion, stream-table joins, tumbling and sliding window aggregations, and message queue ingestion. It supports cluster-agnostic job submission, dynamic cl

FastStream is an asynchronous Python framework designed for building event-driven microservices. It provides a unified abstraction layer for interacting with various message brokers, enabling developers to manage event production and consumption through a consistent interface while maintaining access to native provider-specific features. The framework centers on a decorator-based routing model that binds application logic directly to broker topics, supported by a built-in dependency injection container that resolves resources at runtime. The framework distinguishes itself through its deep int

Python Stream Processing. A Faust fork

A lightweight stream processing library for Go