TAKE A DEEP DIVE

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BUILT FROM SCRATCH

Redpanda is the most complete, Apache Kafka®-compatible streaming data platform, designed from the ground up to be lighter, faster, and simpler to operate. Free from ZooKeeper™ and JVMs, it prioritizes an end-to-end developer experience with a huge ecosystem of connectors, configurable tiered storage, and more.

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SIMPLICITY AND PERFORMANCE AT ITS CORE

The Redpanda platform is your easy button for streaming data. It comes built in with a human-friendly CLI, a rich UI that simplifies working with real-time data, and 220+ pre-built connectors. Its powerful nature gives you up to 10x lower latencies and reduces your total costs by 6x—without sacrificing data safety!

Redpanda node

Redpanda nodes are self-sufficient with everything you need built in. Say goodbye to external dependencies (like JVM or KRaft) and hello to rapid boot times, simpler CI/CD integration, and reliable production environments.

Redpanda Connect

Redpanda Connect puts 220+ connectors at your fingertips, helping you integrate data from disparate sources in the blink of an eye. It is a declarative integration framework that's a simplified and powerful alternative to heavy-duty systems.

Redpanda Console

Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI that complements rpk, our CLI, for managing your Kafka-compatible clusters. It also gives you enhanced data observability and secure access control.

OUR SECRET SAUCE

Engineered for multi-core

Redpanda was engineered from scratch and written in C++ to extract the best performance out of every core, disk, memory chip, and network byte. It uses a patent-pending thread-per-core architecture to ensure the highest throughput, with up to 10x lower latencies, no matter where it’s deployed: global multi-region cloud clusters, on-prem bare metal hardware, private cloud containers, or at the edge!

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Redpanda nodes deploy as self-sufficient processes with built-in schema registry, http proxy, Kafka API-compatible message, and Raft-based data management, and control. They are free from external dependencies like JVM, ZooKeeper™, or KRaft servers. A smaller compute footprint and fewer components means instantaneous boot times, simpler CI/CD integration, and more reliable production environments.

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Native Raft

Redpanda leverages the Raft consensus protocol for its data management and control functions to improve performance, data safety, and cluster reliability, no matter the size and shape of your workloads. Since the nodes natively speak Raft, there aren’t additional quorum servers to manage!

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Cloud-first storage

Redpanda clusters use cloud object storage (Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage) as the default storage tier. This enables Redpanda to deliver new capabilities such as Remote Read Replicas, and Intelligent Tiered Storage, that let you manage and distribute petabytes without breaking your bank on extra storage costs, and with minimal administrative overhead.

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Data sovereignty

Want the data controls of self-hosted clusters but the ease of Cloud? Redpanda Cloud's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) approach gives you fully managed clusters that run within your VPC! Redpanda manages resource provisioning, monitoring, and upgrades, without your data and credentials ever leaving your environment!

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Redpanda Connect

Go from humdrum data pipelines to composable data products. Redpanda Connect prioritizes reliability and a convenient git-ops experience, allowing you to easily adapt data workflows as requirements change. Choose from 220+ open-source connectors, all packaged as a single Go binary that's 128 MiB. Or build your own, with multiple plug-in strategies including your favorite Wasm-supported languages.

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Inline data transforms

Reduce "data ping pong" and create more efficient pipelines by pushing transformation logic into the streaming engine itself. Redpanda Data Transforms is a stateless inline data processing framework that's built on WebAssembly (Wasm), allowing developers to write arbitrary code to process individual messages in-flight as they pass through the broker.

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HAVE IT YOUR WAY

Redpanda is available as a range of fully-managed services via Redpanda Cloud. It is also available for self hosting as a commercially supported Enterprise Edition and a free (BSL) Community Edition. Request a price estimate or a comparison of TCO versus Kafka.

Redpanda Platform

Deploy Redpanda your own way!

Enterprise Edition

Easy to deploy, easy to develop with, easy to scale. Say goodbye to your Kafka ghosts from the past.

Community Edition

Free to use, with source available under BSL. 

Redpanda Cloud

Fully-managed Redpanda cloud services.

BYOC

Fully managed clusters deployed in your own VPC.

Dedicated

Fully managed clusters deployed on dedicated Redpanda cloud resources.

Serverless

Fully managed clusters instantly available on Redpanda cloud resources.

ways to learn more

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Redpanda Serverless

Create a Redpanda Serverless cluster with the click of a button!

Redpanda University

Take our free, self-paced training on streaming data fundamentals.

Cost comparison

Redpanda is 1/6th the total costs of Apache Kafka. See the data.

Redpanda docs

Take a deep dive into our architecture, features and APIs.