RedPanda vs Kafka
Reduce complexity and cost for Kafka streaming data.
Redpanda brings operational simplicity, powerful performance, and cost-efficiency to your Apache Kafka® workloads. Run all your mission-critical data streams with more confidence.
Complexity
Kafka has extra components like HTTP proxy and schema registry — and software dependencies like the JVM and Apache ZooKeeper™ or KRaft.
Legacy architecture
Kafka was designed to exploit commodity spinning disks and doesn’t take advantage of today’s powerful CPUs, high-performance disks, and networks.
Cost prohibitive
Kafka deployments require infrastructure not just for the brokers, but for the additional components, so costs quickly escalate for large deployments.
What is Redpanda?
Redpanda is an Apache Kafka®-compatible streaming data platform designed from the ground up to be lighter, faster, and simpler to operate. Its powerful nature squeezes the most out of today’s cloud infrastructure to give you 10x lower latencies and reduces your total costs by 6x — without sacrificing data safety. Redpanda is available for self-hosted use as Redpanda Platform or as a fully managed service via Redpanda Cloud.
