Redpanda is a simple, powerful, and cost-efficient streaming data platform. With Redpanda Platform, Enterprise Edition, you get the complete control of a self-hosted environment with support for 10GBps+ workloads, cost-efficient tiered storage, and direct access to Redpanda solutions experts.
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The Redpanda platform
Kafka compatibility without the complexity. A single binary to deploy and scale for GBps workloads, with up to 10x lower latency and 6x lower TCO
Enterprise features
Go production with confidence using Enterprise features like intelligent tiered storage, remote read replicas, continuous cluster balancing, and single sign-on (SSO)
Expert Support
24x7 commercial support and helpdesk with SLAs, designated account manager, and direct access to Redpanda solutions experts
Operational simplicity
A single binary that is simple to deploy and scale, with zero external dependencies. Fully Kafka API-compatible.
Powerful
Performance-engineered design in C++ maximizes hardware utilization, reducing latency up to 10x vs Kafka.
Lower TCO
Achieve up to 6x in TCO savings by reducing compute footprint, storage costs, and administrative overhead.
Reliable
Safe for mission critical data, with Raft durability, Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, and self-healing capabilities.
Production with confidence
Use Redpanda for the most demanding 10GBps+ workloads with the extra peace of mind that 24x7 support gives you.
Compliance readiness
Enterprise security, access management, and on-hand expertise help get you across the compliance finish line.
| Capability | Enterprise Edition | Community Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Single binary deployment with brokers, http proxy, schema registry, and Raft consensus built-in |  | |
| Apache Kafka API compatibility; no need to rewrite existing applications | | |
| Performance-engineered in C++ with a thread-per-core architecture and opt-in write caching to maximize modern hardware and achieve up to 10x lower latency versus Kafka and predictable p99s | | |
| Consumes 1/3rd the compute resources of Apache Kafka, resulting in significant infrastructure cost savings | | |
| A durable and reliable system built with Raft native replication, Jepsen tested to be safe, without data loss | | |
| Intelligent tiered storage, compatible with Amazon S3 / Google Cloud Storage / Azure Blob Storage, providing near-infinite data retention while keeping costs to a minimum | | - |
| Redpanda Console, the most complete web UI for visibility into your data streams with powerful tools for time travel debugging and cluster administration | | |
| Inline data transforms, powered by Wasm, for efficient pipelines and stateless processing that never leaves the broker | | |
| Redpanda Connect, 200+ open-source connectors, pre-built for easy integration of disparate data sources, sinks and processors | | |
| Access to Redpanda Connect enterprise security features, support, and select optimized connectors as a paid add-on | | - |
| Built-in observability via Prometheus for monitoring the health and performance of Redpanda clusters | | |
| Support for Edge and ARM server deployments | | |
| Fine-grained ACLs and TLS encryption | | |
| Role-based access control (RBAC) | | - |
| Remote read replicas to easily distribute your data for analytics use cases while protecting operational clusters | | - |
| Continuous data and partition balancing to keep clusters in an optimal state, reducing administrative overhead | | - |
| Secure single sign-on (SSO) for protecting Redpanda Console user interface | | - |
| OIDC and Kerberos authentication | | - |
| Audit logging to support compliance requirements | | - |
| 24x7 commercial support and help desk, with SLAs | | - |
| Dedicated account manager | | - |
| Direct Slack channel | | - |
| Access to Redpanda solution experts | | - |
Tiered Storage
Breakthrough shadow indexing architecture for efficiently managing large amounts of data. Use of cloud object stores for long term retention keeps cost to a minimum.
- Michael Pearce
Sr. Architect, StoneX
- Chip Turner
Engineering Director, Lacework
- Patrick Bland
CTO, Acres Manufacturing
