Apache Beam is a free, open-source programming model for building data processing pipelines across batch and streaming workloads.
Alternatives to Azure Stream Analytics
Apache Druid is an open-source database for real-time analysis of streaming and batch data.
Confluent Cloud is a managed data streaming platform built around a serverless Apache Kafka engine.
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Timeplus
Timeplus is a streaming SQL platform for real-time data pipelines in analytics, telemetry, and AI/ML.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.1From $199 a month - 5

Materialize
Materialize is a SQL-based live data layer for apps and AI agents.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.9From $0.13 a month - 6

RisingWave
RisingWave is a distributed SQL streaming platform that ingests, transforms, and serves real-time data.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.7From $0.23 a month - 7
TIBCO BusinessWorks
TIBCO BusinessWorks is paid enterprise integration software for connecting applications and data in modern and traditional environments.
WebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.7From $0.20 a month - 8

Tinybird Cloud
Tinybird Cloud is a managed real-time data platform for building analytics features and serving data through APIs.
Free planWebAPI6.6From $49 a month - 9
Apache Storm
Apache Storm is a free, open-source system for processing unbounded data streams in real time.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.5Free plan - 10
Feldera
Feldera is an incremental view maintenance engine that keeps SQL views in sync as input data changes, alongside a lakehouse or warehouse.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.5Free plan - 11

Apache Spark
Apache Spark is a free, open-source engine for large-scale data analytics.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.4Free plan - 12

kdb+
kdb+ is a time-series database and analytics engine built around the q vector language.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.4Free plan - 13

Apache Pinot
Apache Pinot is an open-source distributed OLAP datastore for real-time analytics and user-facing workloads.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.3Free plan - 14
Pathway Live Data Framework
Pathway Live Data Framework is a Python framework for building analytics and AI data pipelines over stored data and live streams.
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 15

Apache Flink
Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over bounded and unbounded data streams.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 16
Apache Kafka
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 17

Ververica Platform
Ververica Platform combines stream and batch processing in one runtime for enterprise production workloads.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 18

Apache Samza
Apache Samza is a free, self-hosted framework for processing live data streams and building applications that maintain state.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 19

Apache Heron
Apache Heron is a real-time engine for processing data streams across distributed systems, designed to tolerate faults.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.5 - 20

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink runs Apache Flink applications in the cloud to transform and analyze streaming data in real time.
WebAPI5.4 - 21
Tencent Cloud Oceanus
Tencent Cloud Oceanus is a cloud-deployed, web-accessed service for real-time big data processing.
Web5.4From CN¥2,352 a month - 22
TIBCO Streaming
WebLinuxmacOSWindows5.0 - 23
Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache Flink
Alibaba Cloud Realtime Compute for Apache Flink is a cloud service for processing data streams with Apache Flink.
Web4.9 - 24
Google Cloud Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a cloud-deployed data processing service accessed through the web.
Web4.9

