Features and capabilities for getting your real-time game on
Simple.
Single binary
A single binary with built-in schema registry, http proxy, and message broker capabilities makes it easy to deploy and scale your clusters in self-managed environments.
Kafka API-compatible
Using Kafka? Migrate to Redpanda without application code changes. New to data streaming? You get to use the entire Kafka ecosystem out-of-the box.
Redpanda Console
The easiest, most complete web UI for visibility into your data streams with powerful features for time travel debugging and cluster administration.
Local dev, CI/CD
Deploys in minutes, spins up in seconds, and runs efficiently wherever you develop – containers, laptops, x86 and ARM hardware, edge platforms, cloud instances, etc.
Developer-first CLI
Ships with RPK, a single tool for managing your entire Redpanda cluster. It handles everything from low-level tuning to node configuration, and tasks like topic creation.
No ZooKeeper™ or KRaft. No JVM.
100% freedom from external dependencies makes for easier deployments in modern environments such as Kubernetes and edge computing. No more time sunk into tuning the JVM.
Deploys anywhere
Runs easily in the deployment environment of your choice: in your cloud provider’s infrastructure, in your private cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. Supports existing identity and access management infrastructure.
Inline data transforms
Built-in data transforms to enrich data or apply routine business logic without ping-ponging across additional processing infrastructure.
Redpanda Connect
220+ pre-built connectors to quickly and easily integrate data from disparate sources. Use for free, or purchase a plan for support and unlock enterprise features.
Powerful. No, really powerful.
GB/s+ with a small footprint
Ekes out every ounce of juice from your infrastructure to deliver throughput never before possible. Do more with your real-time data.
10x lower tail latencies
Up to 10x lower average latencies for the same workloads on identical hardware, even under sustained loads. Read this benchmark vs Apache Kafka for all the details.
6x faster transactions
Thanks to several architectural optimizations, including an optimistic approach to Raft and parallel commits that deliver up to 6x faster transactions.
Write caching
Make fast machines faster, or run more efficiently on leaner infrastructure. Opt-in to write caching and trade guaranteed durability for drastically reduced latencies.
Predictable p99s
No page cache, no locking, no garbage collection pauses, minimal context switching, and thread-local memory access ensure application latencies you can bet your business on.
Automatic hardware tuning
Comes bundled with an auto-tuner, autonomously configuring your Linux machine for optimal performance, further boosting Redpanda's performance.
Cost effective. Up to 6x more.
6x lower total costs
Written in C++ using a thread-per-core model to maximize utilization of hardware. Reduces hardware footprint by 3x or more and total costs by 6x.
Intelligent tiered storage
Breakthrough shadow indexing architecture for efficiently managing large amounts of data. Use of cloud object stores for long term retention keeps cost to a minimum.
Remote Read Replicas
“CDN” for your streaming data! Cherry-pick topics from operational clusters and serve them from analytics clusters without duplicating data and without additional software.
Follower fetching
Reduce network costs for multi-AZ deployments up to 50% with follower fetching, which enables consumers to fetch records from the closest physical replica of a topic partition.
Engine of record
Serves as a single-API "engine of record" for all your streaming applications and services — OLTP, RTA, OLAP and Edge.
Lightweight connectors
Redpanda Connect requires 3x less compute resources than Kafka Connect. It's a single binary that's 128 MiB, consolidating workloads onto fewer machines.
Safe and reliable.
No data loss
Built on Raft and safe by default. Get the data safety you need without incurring a performance penalty. See the official Jepsen Report.
Petabyte scale
Scales from your laptop to petabytes of data without impacting code. Scales horizontally or vertically — just add more nodes or allocate more cores as your workload grows.
Continuous cluster balancing
Ongoing redistribution of data and leadership across nodes enables clusters to self-manage and self-heal, preventing performance hotspots without administrative burden.
Enterprise security
Meet data security requirements without the headaches. Redpanda supports end-to-end encryption, Kerberos authentication, Kafka-compatible ACLs, cloud IAM roles, Console SSO, RBAC, and more.
Multi-AZ support
Cloud outages? No problem. Distribute your clusters across multiple availability zones (or racks) to increase system availability.
Native Prometheus integration
Built-in observability via Prometheus enables you to monitor the health and performance of your Redpanda clusters using your favorite DevOps and open source tooling. Redpanda-provided Grafana dashboards get you up and running fast.
Scalable cluster ops
Keep your Redpanda clusters in optimal health with built-in operational workflows (such as Maintenance Mode), cluster diagnostics, seamless rolling upgrades, and other cluster maintenance features.
Redpanda vs Kafka
Redpanda is an API-compatible replacement for Kafka, that is up to 10x faster, up to 6x more cost-effective and significantly easier to use. Download the detailed comparison.
The BYOC option for Redpanda Cloud gives us the managed service experience we require, while enabling us to reduce costs and take advantage of our discounted rates for AWS compute, storage and networking services.
“When selecting a streaming data platform, the choice for Jump was obvious. “For starters, we needed assurance we’d have zero data loss. We also needed something that would meet our high throughput requirements. That put Redpanda in a class of its own.”
"Redpanda was able to handle the same load on far less resources than Kafka required. It was 5 to 6 times more efficient, greatly reducing our hardware costs as well as support and licensing costs."
We chose Redpanda Cloud for three important reasons: It gives us the best Kafka API performance by far, has all the features we need and it keeps our costs in check.
Redpanda helped us grow from the hundreds of millions of dollars in trading per day to billions of dollars.
Redpanda BYOC gives us a fully managed Kafka service running on our own cloud servers, balancing our internal compliance requirements with ease of use, and without compromising performance and compatibility.
As a result of switching to Redpanda, we have reduced our cloud infrastructure spend on event streaming by about 70%, resulting in savings of millions of USD annually.
Take Redpanda for a spin!
Looking to improve application performance and simplify data pipelines? Give Redpanda a try or get in touch with us to learn more.