Best Data Pipeline Software

Compare the Top Data Pipeline Software as of May 2025

What is Data Pipeline Software?

Data pipeline software helps businesses automate the movement, transformation, and storage of data from various sources to destinations such as data warehouses, lakes, or analytic platforms. These platforms provide tools for extracting data from multiple sources, processing it in real-time or batch, and loading it into target systems for analysis or reporting (ETL: Extract, Transform, Load). Data pipeline software often includes features for data monitoring, error handling, scheduling, and integration with other software tools, making it easier for organizations to ensure data consistency, accuracy, and flow. By using this software, businesses can streamline data workflows, improve decision-making, and ensure that data is readily available for analysis. Compare and read user reviews of the best Data Pipeline software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Apache Kafka

    Apache Kafka

    The Apache Software Foundation

    Apache Kafka® is an open-source, distributed streaming platform. Scale production clusters up to a thousand brokers, trillions of messages per day, petabytes of data, hundreds of thousands of partitions. Elastically expand and contract storage and processing. Stretch clusters efficiently over availability zones or connect separate clusters across geographic regions. Process streams of events with joins, aggregations, filters, transformations, and more, using event-time and exactly-once processing. Kafka’s out-of-the-box Connect interface integrates with hundreds of event sources and event sinks including Postgres, JMS, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, and more. Read, write, and process streams of events in a vast array of programming languages.
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    RudderStack

    RudderStack

    RudderStack

    RudderStack is the smart customer data pipeline. Easily build pipelines connecting your whole customer data stack, then make them smarter by pulling analysis from your data warehouse to trigger enrichment and activation in customer tools for identity stitching and other advanced use cases. Start building smarter customer data pipelines today.
    Starting Price: $750/month
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    IBM StreamSets
    IBM® StreamSets enables users to create and manage smart streaming data pipelines through an intuitive graphical interface, facilitating seamless data integration across hybrid and multicloud environments. This is why leading global companies rely on IBM StreamSets to support millions of data pipelines for modern analytics, intelligent applications and hybrid integration. Decrease data staleness and enable real-time data at scale—handling millions of records of data, across thousands of pipelines within seconds. Insulate data pipelines from change and unexpected shifts with drag-and-drop, prebuilt processors designed to automatically identify and adapt to data drift. Create streaming pipelines to ingest structured, semistructured or unstructured data and deliver it to a wide range of destinations.
    Starting Price: $1000 per month
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    Azure Event Hubs
    Event Hubs is a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service that’s simple, trusted, and scalable. Stream millions of events per second from any source to build dynamic data pipelines and immediately respond to business challenges. Keep processing data during emergencies using the geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication features. Integrate seamlessly with other Azure services to unlock valuable insights. Allow existing Apache Kafka clients and applications to talk to Event Hubs without any code changes—you get a managed Kafka experience without having to manage your own clusters. Experience real-time data ingestion and microbatching on the same stream. Focus on drawing insights from your data instead of managing infrastructure. Build real-time big data pipelines and respond to business challenges right away.
    Starting Price: $0.03 per hour
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    Upsolver

    Upsolver

    Upsolver

    Upsolver makes it incredibly simple to build a governed data lake and to manage, integrate and prepare streaming data for analysis. Define pipelines using only SQL on auto-generated schema-on-read. Easy visual IDE to accelerate building pipelines. Add Upserts and Deletes to data lake tables. Blend streaming and large-scale batch data. Automated schema evolution and reprocessing from previous state. Automatic orchestration of pipelines (no DAGs). Fully-managed execution at scale. Strong consistency guarantee over object storage. Near-zero maintenance overhead for analytics-ready data. Built-in hygiene for data lake tables including columnar formats, partitioning, compaction and vacuuming. 100,000 events per second (billions daily) at low cost. Continuous lock-free compaction to avoid “small files” problem. Parquet-based tables for fast queries.
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    Spring Cloud Data Flow
    Microservice-based streaming and batch data processing for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Spring Cloud Data Flow provides tools to create complex topologies for streaming and batch data pipelines. The data pipelines consist of Spring Boot apps, built using the Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task microservice frameworks. Spring Cloud Data Flow supports a range of data processing use cases, from ETL to import/export, event streaming, and predictive analytics. The Spring Cloud Data Flow server uses Spring Cloud Deployer, to deploy data pipelines made of Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task applications onto modern platforms such as Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. A selection of pre-built stream and task/batch starter apps for various data integration and processing scenarios facilitate learning and experimentation. Custom stream and task applications, targeting different middleware or data services, can be built using the familiar Spring Boot style programming model.
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    Pandio

    Pandio

    Pandio

    Connecting systems to scale AI initiatives is complex, expensive, and prone to fail. Pandio’s cloud-native managed solution simplifies your data pipelines to harness the power of AI. Access your data from anywhere at any time in order to query, analyze, and drive to insight. Big data analytics without the big cost. Enable data movement seamlessly. Streaming, queuing and pub-sub with unmatched throughput, latency, and durability. Design, train, and deploy machine learning models locally in less than 30 minutes. Accelerate your path to ML and democratize the process across your organization. And it doesn’t require months (or years) of disappointment. Pandio’s AI-driven architecture automatically orchestrates your models, data, and ML tools. Pandio works with your existing stack to accelerate your ML initiatives. Orchestrate your models and messages across your organization.
    Starting Price: $1.40 per hour
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    Hazelcast

    Hazelcast

    Hazelcast

    In-Memory Computing Platform. The digital world is different. Microseconds matter. That's why the world's largest organizations rely on us to power their most time-sensitive applications at scale. New data-enabled applications can deliver transformative business power – if they meet today’s requirement of immediacy. Hazelcast solutions complement virtually any database to deliver results that are significantly faster than a traditional system of record. Hazelcast’s distributed architecture provides redundancy for continuous cluster up-time and always available data to serve the most demanding applications. Capacity grows elastically with demand, without compromising performance or availability. The fastest in-memory data grid, combined with third-generation high-speed event processing, delivered through the cloud.
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    Google Cloud Dataflow
    Unified stream and batch data processing that's serverless, fast, and cost-effective. Fully managed data processing service. Automated provisioning and management of processing resources. Horizontal autoscaling of worker resources to maximize resource utilization. OSS community-driven innovation with Apache Beam SDK. Reliable and consistent exactly-once processing. Streaming data analytics with speed. Dataflow enables fast, simplified streaming data pipeline development with lower data latency. Allow teams to focus on programming instead of managing server clusters as Dataflow’s serverless approach removes operational overhead from data engineering workloads. Allow teams to focus on programming instead of managing server clusters as Dataflow’s serverless approach removes operational overhead from data engineering workloads. Dataflow automates provisioning and management of processing resources to minimize latency and maximize utilization.
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    Conduktor

    Conduktor

    Conduktor

    We created Conduktor, the all-in-one friendly interface to work with the Apache Kafka ecosystem. Develop and manage Apache Kafka with confidence. With Conduktor DevTools, the all-in-one Apache Kafka desktop client. Develop and manage Apache Kafka with confidence, and save time for your entire team. Apache Kafka is hard to learn and to use. Made by Kafka lovers, Conduktor best-in-class user experience is loved by developers. Conduktor offers more than just an interface over Apache Kafka. It provides you and your teams the control of your whole data pipeline, thanks to our integration with most technologies around Apache Kafka. Provide you and your teams the most complete tool on top of Apache Kafka.
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