Best Real-Time Data Streaming Tools
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What are Real-Time Data Streaming Tools?
Real-time data streaming tools enable organizations, big data and machine learning professionals, and data scientists to stream data in real time, and build data models when new data is created or ingested. Compare and read user reviews of the best Real-Time Data Streaming tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Geckoboard
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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StarTree
StarTree
StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is a fully managed real-time analytics platform built for customer-facing applications that demand instant insights on the freshest data. Unlike traditional data warehouses or OLTP databases—optimized for back-office reporting or transactions—StarTree is engineered for real-time OLAP at true scale, meaning: - Data Volume: query performance sustained at petabyte scale - Ingest Rates: millions of events per second, continuously indexed for freshness - Concurrency: thousands to millions of simultaneous users served with sub-second latency With StarTree, businesses deliver always-fresh insights at interactive speed, enabling applications that personalize, monitor, and act in real time.Starting Price: Free -
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PubSub+ Platform
Solace
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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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
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
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
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
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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Lightstreamer
Lightstreamer
Lightstreamer is an event broker optimized for the internet, ensuring seamless real-time data delivery across the web. Unlike traditional brokers, Lightstreamer automatically handles proxies, firewalls, disconnections, network congestion, and the general unpredictability of the internet. With its intelligent streaming feature, Lightstreamer guarantees real-time data transmission, always finding a way to deliver your data reliably and efficiently, ensuring robust last-mile messaging. Lightstreamer offers technology that is both mature and cutting-edge, continuously evolving to stay at the forefront of innovation. With a proven track record and years of field-tested performance, Lightstreamer ensures your data is delivered reliably and efficiently. Experience unparalleled reliability in any scenario with Lightstreamer.Starting Price: Free -
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Aerospike
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
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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Leo
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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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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Confluent
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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Amazon Kinesis
Amazon
Easily collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time. Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. With Amazon Kinesis, you can ingest real-time data such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data for machine learning, analytics, and other applications. Amazon Kinesis enables you to process and analyze data as it arrives and respond instantly instead of having to wait until all your data is collected before the processing can begin. Amazon Kinesis enables you to ingest, buffer, and process streaming data in real-time, so you can derive insights in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days. -
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Insigna
Insigna
Insigna - Unified Digital Operations Platform™ offers comprehensive solutions for unification, management & analysis of operations data enabling insights for informed decisions and performance improvements. With Insigna, you unlock the full potential of your data. Insigna solutions focus on open integration, enabling Seamless Connectivity across your ops, Data Analytics, Workflow Simplification, Automation, & Optimization, empowering organizations to harness the power of Data Intelligence. A user-friendly, no-code configuration, helps you easily create customized dashboards & reports for actionable insights at your fingertips. Experience a rapid return on investment as Insigna streamlines your workflows & automates repetitive tasks, freeing up valuable resources for strategic initiatives. With real-time analytics & intuitive intelligence, decision-makers can quickly identify trends and make informed choices that drive incremental growth. -
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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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Informatica Data Engineering Streaming
Informatica
AI-powered Informatica Data Engineering Streaming enables data engineers to ingest, process, and analyze real-time streaming data for actionable insights. Advanced serverless deployment option with integrated metering dashboard cuts admin overhead. Rapidly build intelligent data pipelines with CLAIRE®-powered automation, including automatic change data capture (CDC). Ingest thousands of databases and millions of files, and streaming events. Efficiently ingest databases, files, and streaming data for real-time data replication and streaming analytics. Find and inventory all data assets throughout your organization. Intelligently discover and prepare trusted data for advanced analytics and AI/ML projects. -
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Azure Stream Analytics
Microsoft
Discover Azure Stream Analytics, the easy-to-use, real-time analytics service that is designed for mission-critical workloads. Build an end-to-end serverless streaming pipeline with just a few clicks. Go from zero to production in minutes using SQL—easily extensible with custom code and built-in machine learning capabilities for more advanced scenarios. Run your most demanding workloads with the confidence of a financially backed SLA. -
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Cloudera DataFlow
Cloudera
Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) is a cloud-native universal data distribution service powered by Apache NiFi that lets developers connect to any data source anywhere with any structure, process it, and deliver to any destination. CDF-PC offers a flow-based low-code development paradigm that aligns best with how developers design, develop, and test data distribution pipelines. With over 400+ connectors and processors across the ecosystem of hybrid cloud services—including data lakes, lakehouses, cloud warehouses, and on-premises sources—CDF-PC provides indiscriminate data distribution. These data distribution flows can then be version-controlled into a catalog where operators can self-serve deployments to different runtimes.
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