Arroyo is an open-source distributed stream processing engine for stateful computations on data streams, with sub-second results.
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Apache NiFi is free, open-source software for automating data flows between systems, including cybersecurity, observability, event stream, and generative AI pipelines.
Apache Beam is a free, open-source programming model for building data processing pipelines across batch and streaming workloads.
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Esper
Esper is a language, compiler, and runtime for complex event processing and streaming analytics in Java and .NET.
Free planOpen sourceAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.5Free plan - 5
AFL++
AFL++ is a free, coverage-guided fuzzer that changes program inputs and checks whether a target binary reaches previously unseen execution paths.
Free planAndroidLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.2From €20,000 a year - 6

Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud is a managed data streaming platform built around a serverless Apache Kafka engine.
Free planWebAPILinux7.1From $385 a month - 7
Timeplus
Timeplus is a streaming SQL platform for real-time data pipelines in analytics, telemetry, and AI/ML.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.1From $199 a month - 8

Materialize
Materialize is a SQL-based live data layer for apps and AI agents.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.0From $1.50 a year - 9

RisingWave
RisingWave is a distributed SQL streaming platform that ingests, transforms, and serves real-time data.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.7$0.23 usage-based - 10
Apache Storm
Apache Storm is a free, open-source system for processing unbounded data streams in real time.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 11
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 - 12

Apache Spark
Apache Spark is a free, open-source engine for large-scale data analytics.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.4Free plan - 13
Kafka Streams
Kafka Streams is a client library for building applications and microservices that read and write data in Kafka clusters.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.2Free plan - 14

Apache Flink
Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over bounded and unbounded data streams.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 15
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 - 16
Apache Kafka
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 17

Apache Samza
Apache Samza is a free, self-hosted framework for processing live data streams and building applications that maintain state.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 18
Quix Streams
Quix Streams is a free, open-source Python library for processing Kafka data and building real-time streaming applications.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 19
Siddhi
Siddhi is a free, open-source stream and complex event processing engine for building event-driven applications.
APILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted5.9 - 20

Hazelcast Platform
Hazelcast Platform brings a distributed compute engine and fast data store together in one runtime for real-time and AI-driven applications.
APILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted5.8 - 21

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.
WebAPI5.5 - 22

Apache Heron
Apache Heron is a real-time engine for processing data streams across distributed systems, designed to tolerate faults.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.5 - 23
Timely Dataflow
Timely Dataflow is a free, open-source Rust system for distributed streaming computation and general computation structure.
APISelf-hosted5.3 - 24

Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics is a web service for processing streaming data with stateful processing, SQL processing and event-time windows.
Web5.1 - 25
Google Cloud Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a cloud-deployed data processing service accessed through the web.
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