Best Real-Time Data Streaming Tools

StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is a fully managed real-time analytics platform built for customer-facing applications that demand instant insights on the freshest data. Unlike traditional data warehouses or OLTP databases—optimized for back-office reporting or transactions—StarTree is engineered for real-time OLAP at true scale, meaning: - Data Volume: query performance sustained at petabyte scale - Ingest Rates: millions of events per second, continuously indexed for freshness - Concurrency: thousands to millions of simultaneous users served with sub-second latency With StarTree, businesses deliver always-fresh insights at interactive speed, enabling applications that personalize, monitor, and act in real time.

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage, with no inter-AZ networking costs, no disks to manage, and infinitely scalable, all within your VPC. WarpStream is deployed as a stateless and auto-scaling agent binary in your VPC with no local disks to manage. Agents stream data directly to and from object storage with no buffering on local disks and no data tiering. Create new “virtual clusters” in our control plane instantly. Support different environments, teams, or projects without managing any dedicated infrastructure. WarpStream is protocol compatible with Apache Kafka, so you can keep using all your favorite tools and software. No need to rewrite your application or use a proprietary SDK. Just change the URL in your favorite Kafka client library and start streaming. Never again have to choose between reliability and your budget.

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to use data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance, and is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the uniqueness of your data. The winners in every industry will be data and AI companies. From ETL to data warehousing to generative AI, Databricks helps you simplify and accelerate your data and AI goals. Databricks combines generative AI with the unification benefits of a lakehouse to power a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the unique semantics of your data. This allows the Databricks Platform to automatically optimize performance and manage infrastructure in ways unique to your business. The Data Intelligence Engine understands your organization’s language, so search and discovery of new data is as easy as asking a question like you would to a coworker.

Data integration for your hybrid cloud. Modern, reliable data integration across your private and public cloud. All in real-time with change data capture and data streams. Built by the executive & technical team from GoldenGate Software, Striim brings decades of experience in mission-critical enterprise workloads. Striim scales out as a distributed platform in your environment or in the cloud. Scalability is fully configurable by your team. Striim is fully secure with HIPAA and GDPR compliance. Built ground up for modern enterprise workloads in the cloud or on-premise. Drag and drop to create data flows between your sources and targets. Process, enrich, and analyze your streaming data with real-time SQL queries.

Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Apache Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. Apache Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use! Apache Storm has many use cases: realtime analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC, ETL, and more. Apache Storm is fast: a benchmark clocked it at over a million tuples processed per second per node. It is scalable, fault-tolerant, guarantees your data will be processed, and is easy to set up and operate. Apache Storm integrates with the queueing and database technologies you already use. An Apache Storm topology consumes streams of data and processes those streams in arbitrarily complex ways, repartitioning the streams between each stage of the computation however needed. Read more in the tutorial.