Apache Kafka
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Plans and prices
From Apache Kafka's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Kafka | Free | Available to download for free · No formal or commercial support from ASF |
The facts
Each one read from Apache Kafka's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Availability and durability
- Kafka supports durable, fault-tolerant storage and replication across availability zones, data centers, or geographic regions.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Kafka can run on bare-metal hardware, virtual machines, or containers, on premises or in the cloud, with self-managed or vendor-managed service options.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Event streaming
- Kafka lets applications publish and subscribe to event streams, store them durably, and process them in real time or retrospectively.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Kafka Connect integrates with hundreds of event sources and sinks; the homepage names Postgres, JMS, Elasticsearch, and AWS S3 as examples.checked 9 Oct 2026
- License
- The Apache Software Foundation identifies Apache License 2.0 as a widely adopted open-source license.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Performance and scale
- The project describes throughput at network-limited rates, latencies as low as 2 ms, and scaling to clusters of up to a thousand brokers.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Quickstart requirement
- The Kafka quickstart says a local environment must have Java 17 or later installed.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security
- The project describes Kafka as secure; the ASF directs vulnerability reports to its security page.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Stream processing
- Kafka Streams supports stateful operations, aggregations, windowing, joins, event-time processing, and exactly-once processing.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Apache Software Foundation says it does not provide formal or commercial support for its software packages.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Use cases
- The project lists messaging, website activity tracking, metrics, log aggregation, stream processing, event sourcing, and commit logs as Kafka use cases.checked 9 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform for data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1999checked 4 Oct 2026
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