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Alternatives · 2026

The best Confluent Cloud alternatives

The rest of Best Stream Processing Software, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

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Apache Beam

Apache Beam suits data and software developers building batch or streaming pipelines for supported execution back ends.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.6 Visit
2
Apache NiFi

NiFi suits teams automating data flows across systems, including cybersecurity, observability, event stream, and generative AI pipelines.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.6 Visit
3
Arroyo

Arroyo suits teams and developers building stateful data-stream pipelines with SQL, and those who need Rust user-defined functions.

WebMacLinux+2 $5 a month Record5.6 Visit
4
AFL++

AFL++ suits developers and security teams working with supported target types who need coverage-guided fuzzing.

AndroidWindowsMac+2 €20,000 a year Record5.4 Visit
5
Esper

Esper may suit developers building Java or .NET applications that process event streams.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record5.4 Visit
6
Materialize

Materialize suits teams building applications or AI agents that need continually updated SQL views from connected data sources.

WebLinuxAPI+1 $1.50 a year Record5.3 Visit
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Timeplus

Timeplus describes itself as designed for data engineers and platform teams processing streaming and historical data with SQL.

WebWindowsMac+3 $199 a month Record5.3 Visit
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RisingWave

RisingWave may suit teams building streaming data pipelines with SQL and PostgreSQL-compatible tools.

WebMacLinux+2 $0.23 usage-based Record5.1 Visit
9
Apache Spark

Spark suits teams and developers working with large-scale analytics, batch jobs, or real-time streams.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.9 Visit
10
Apache Storm

Apache Storm is for developers and teams building self-hosted systems that process ongoing data streams.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record4.9 Visit
11 WindowsMacLinux+1 Free plan Record4.9 Visit
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Feldera

Feldera suits teams that need to keep SQL views current as source data changes, including those working on real-time medallion architectures, fraud…

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record4.8 Visit
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Hazelcast Platform

Hazelcast Platform suits teams building data-intensive, mission-critical AI workloads and real-time applications.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
14
Pathway Live Data Framework

Pathway suits developers building data pipelines for analytics or AI over stored and live data.

APISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.6 Visit
15
Siddhi

Siddhi suits developers building event-driven applications, real-time analytics, data integration, notification, or rule-processing systems.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.6 Visit
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Apache Flink

Flink suits teams building event-driven systems, stream or batch analytics, and data pipelines, especially those able to operate self-hosted cluster…

LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.4 Visit
17 LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.4 Visit
18 LinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.3 Visit
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Apache Samza

Samza suits developers building real-time data applications who can manage a self-hosted framework.

LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.3 Visit
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Apache Kafka

Kafka suits teams building event-streaming systems for data pipelines, integration, analytics, and related applications.

APISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.1 Visit
21 WebAPI — Record3.6 Visit
22 APISelf-hosted — Record3.5 Visit
23 Web Free plan Record2.8 Visit
24 Web — Record2.5 Visit