Best Event Stream Processing Software

Compare the Top Event Stream Processing Software as of June 2025

What is Event Stream Processing Software?

Event stream processing software enables organizations to analyze and process data in real-time as it is generated, providing immediate insights and enabling quick decision-making. This software is designed to handle large volumes of streaming data, such as sensor data, transaction logs, social media feeds, or financial market data. Event stream processing software often includes features like real-time analytics, pattern detection, event filtering, and aggregation to identify trends or anomalies. It is widely used in applications such as fraud detection, predictive maintenance, supply chain management, and real-time analytics. Compare and read user reviews of the best Event Stream Processing 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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    PubNub

    PubNub

    PubNub

    Innovate with Realtime Features: We take care of realtime communication infrastructure so you can focus on your app. Our Platform for Realtime Communication: A platform to build and operate real-time interactivity for web, mobile, AI/ML, IoT, and Edge computing applications Faster & Easier Deployments: SDK support for 50+ mobile, web, server, and IoT environments (PubNub and community supported) and more than 65 pre-built integrations with external and third-party APIs to give developers the features they need regardless of programming language or tech stack. Scalability: The industry’s most scalable platform capable of supporting millions of concurrent users and allows for rapid growth with low latency, high uptime, and without financial penalties. Security & Compliance: Enterprise-grade security and compliance with the most stringent regulations worldwide, including GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and CCPA.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Ably

    Ably

    Ably

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale. Ably’s products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $49.99/month
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    Aiven

    Aiven

    Aiven

    Aiven manages your open source data infrastructure in the cloud - so you don't have to. Developers can do what they do best: create applications. We do what we do best: manage cloud data infrastructure. All solutions are open source. You can also freely move data between clouds or create multi-cloud environments. Know exactly how much you’ll be paying and why. We bundle networking, storage and basic support costs together. We are committed to keeping your Aiven software online. If there’s ever an issue, we’ll be there to fix it. Deploy a service on the Aiven platform in 10 minutes. Sign up - no credit card info needed. Select your open source service, and the cloud and region to deploy to. Choose your plan - you have $300 in free credits. Click "Create service" and go on to configure your data sources. Stay in control of your data using powerful open-source services.
    Starting Price: $200.00 per month
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    Instaclustr

    Instaclustr

    Instaclustr

    Instaclustr is the Open Source-as-a-Service company, delivering reliability at scale. We operate an automated, proven, and trusted managed environment, providing database, analytics, search, and messaging. We enable companies to focus internal development and operational resources on building cutting edge customer-facing applications. Instaclustr works with cloud providers including AWS, Heroku, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform. The company has SOC 2 certification and provides 24/7 customer support.
    Starting Price: $20 per node per month
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    PubSub+ Platform
    Solace PubSub+ Platform helps enterprises design, deploy and manage event-driven systems across hybrid and multi-cloud and IoT environments so they can be more event-driven and operate in real-time. The PubSub+ Platform includes the powerful PubSub+ Event Brokers, event management capabilities with PubSub+ Event Portal, as well as monitoring and integration capabilities all available via a single cloud console. PubSub+ allows easy creation of an event mesh, an interconnected network of event brokers, allowing for seamless and dynamic data movement across highly distributed network environments. PubSub+ Event Brokers can be deployed as fully managed cloud services, self-managed software in private cloud or on-premises environments, or as turnkey hardware appliances for unparalleled performance and low TCO. PubSub+ Event Portal is a complimentary toolset for design and governance of event-driven systems including both Solace and Kafka-based event broker environments.
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    IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
    IBM Cloud Pak for Integration® is a hybrid integration platform with an automated, closed-loop approach that supports multiple styles of integration within a single, unified experience. Unlock business data and assets as APIs, connect cloud and on-premise applications, reliably move data with enterprise messaging, deliver real-time event interactions, transfer data across any cloud and deploy and scale with cloud-native architecture and shared foundational services, all with end-to-end enterprise-grade security and encryption. Achieve the best results from integration with an automated, closed-loop and multi-style approach. Apply targeted innovations to automate integrations, such as natural language–powered integration flows, AI-assisted mapping and RPA, and use company-specific operational data to continuously improve integrations, enhance API test generation, workload balancing and more.
    Starting Price: $934 per month
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    Nussknacker

    Nussknacker

    Nussknacker

    Nussknacker is a low-code visual tool for domain experts to define and run real-time decisioning algorithms instead of implementing them in the code. It serves where real-time actions on data have to be made: real-time marketing, fraud detection, Internet of Things, Customer 360, and Machine Learning inferring. An essential part of Nussknacker is a visual design tool for decision algorithms. It allows not-so-technical users – analysts or business people – to define decision logic in an imperative, easy-to-follow, and understandable way. Once authored, with a click of a button, scenarios are deployed for execution. And can be changed and redeployed anytime there’s a need. Nussknacker supports two processing modes: streaming and request-response. In streaming mode, it uses Kafka as its primary interface. It supports both stateful and stateless processing.
    Starting Price: 0
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    Aiven for Apache Kafka
    Apache Kafka as a fully managed service, with zero vendor lock-in and a full set of capabilities to build your streaming pipeline. Set up fully managed Kafka in less than 10 minutes — directly from our web console or programmatically via our API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. Easily connect it to your existing tech stack with over 30 connectors, and feel confident in your setup with logs and metrics available out of the box via the service integrations. A fully managed distributed data streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and pipelines, stream analytics, and any other case where you need to move a lot of data between applications — and quickly. With Aiven’s hosted and managed-for-you Apache Kafka, you can set up clusters, deploy new nodes, migrate clouds, and upgrade existing versions — in a single mouse click — and monitor them through a simple dashboard.
    Starting Price: $200 per month
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    Amazon MSK
    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. With Amazon MSK, you can use native Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes, stream changes to and from databases, and power machine learning and analytics applications. Apache Kafka clusters are challenging to setup, scale, and manage in production. When you run Apache Kafka on your own, you need to provision servers, configure Apache Kafka manually, replace servers when they fail, orchestrate server patches and upgrades, architect the cluster for high availability, ensure data is durably stored and secured, setup monitoring and alarms, and carefully plan scaling events to support load changes.
    Starting Price: $0.0543 per hour
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    Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
    Go beyond table stakes with the industry’s most comprehensive, microservices-based, API-driven, and AI-powered enterprise iPaaS. Powered by the CLAIRE engine, IICS supports any cloud-native pattern, from data, application, and API integration to MDM. Our global distribution and multi-cloud support covers Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, and more. IICS offers the industry’s highest enterprise scale and trust, with the industry’s most security certifications. Our enterprise iPaaS includes multiple cloud data management products designed to accelerate productivity and improve speed and scale. Informatica is a Leader again in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise iPaaS. Get real-world insights and reviews for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. Try our cloud services—for free. Our customers are our number-one priority—across products, services, and support. That’s why we’ve earned top marks in customer loyalty for 12 years in a row.
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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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    Leo

    Leo

    Leo

    Turn your data into a realtime stream, making it immediately available and ready to use. Leo reduces the complexity of event sourcing by making it easy to create, visualize, monitor, and maintain your data flows. Once you unlock your data, you are no longer limited by the constraints of your legacy systems. Dramatically reduced dev time keeps your developers and stakeholders happy. Adopt microservice architectures to continuously innovate and improve agility. In reality, success with microservices is all about data. An organization must invest in a reliable and repeatable data backbone to make microservices a reality. Implement full-fledged search in your custom app. With data flowing, adding and maintaining a search database will not be a burden.
    Starting Price: $251 per month
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    Astra Streaming
    Responsive applications keep users engaged and developers inspired. Rise to meet these ever-increasing expectations with the DataStax Astra Streaming service platform. DataStax Astra Streaming is a cloud-native messaging and event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar. Astra Streaming allows you to build streaming applications on top of an elastically scalable, multi-cloud messaging and event streaming platform. Astra Streaming is powered by Apache Pulsar, the next-generation event streaming platform which provides a unified solution for streaming, queuing, pub/sub, and stream processing. Astra Streaming is a natural complement to Astra DB. Using Astra Streaming, existing Astra DB users can easily build real-time data pipelines into and out of their Astra DB instances. With Astra Streaming, avoid vendor lock-in and deploy on any of the major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) compatible with open-source Apache Pulsar.
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    Tray.ai

    Tray.ai

    Tray.ai

    Tray.ai is an API integration platform that allows users to innovate, integrate, and automate organization with no developer resources needed. Tray.io enables users to connect their entire cloud stack on their own. With Tray.ai, users can easily build and streamline processes with a specifically designed visual workflow editor. Tray.io also empowers the users' workforce with automated processes. The intelligence powering the first iPaaS that everyone can use to complete business processes using natural language instructions. Tray.ai is a low-code automation platform designed for both non-technical and technical users to create sophisticated workflow automations that facilitate efficient data movement and actions across multiple applications. Our low-code builder and new Merlin AI transform the automation process by bringing together the power of flexible, scalable automation; support for advanced business logic; and native generative AI capabilities that anyone can use.
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    Striim

    Striim

    Striim

    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.
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    Crosser

    Crosser

    Crosser Technologies

    Analyze and act on your data in the Edge. Make Big Data small and relevant. Collect sensor data from all your assets. Connect any sensor, PLC, DCS, MES or Historian. Condition monitoring of remote assets. Industry 4.0 data collection & integration. Combine streaming and enterprise data in data flows. Use your favorite Cloud Provider or your own data center for storage of data. Bring, manage and deploy your own ML models with Crosser Edge MLOps functionality. The Crosser Edge Node is open to run any ML framework. Central resource library for your trained models in crosser cloud. Drag-and-drop for all other steps in the data pipeline. One operation to deploy ML models to any number of Edge Nodes. Self-Service Innovation powered by Crosser Flow Studio. Use a rich library of pre-built modules. Enables collaboration across teams and sites. No more dependencies on single team members.
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    Confluent

    Confluent

    Confluent

    Infinite retention for Apache Kafka® with Confluent. Be infrastructure-enabled, not infrastructure-restricted Legacy technologies require you to choose between being real-time or highly-scalable. Event streaming enables you to innovate and win - by being both real-time and highly-scalable. Ever wonder how your rideshare app analyzes massive amounts of data from multiple sources to calculate real-time ETA? Ever wonder how your credit card company analyzes millions of credit card transactions across the globe and sends fraud notifications in real-time? The answer is event streaming. Move to microservices. Enable your hybrid strategy through a persistent bridge to cloud. Break down silos to demonstrate compliance. Gain real-time, persistent event transport. The list is endless.
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    Eclipse Streamsheets
    Build professional applications to automate workflows, continuously monitor operations, and control processes in real-time. Your solutions run 24/7 on servers in the cloud and on the edge. Thanks to the spreadsheet user interface, you do not have to be a software developer. Instead of writing program code, you drag-and-drop data, fill cells with formulas, and design charts in a way you already know. Find all necessary protocols on board that you need to connect to sensors, and machines like MQTT, REST, and OPC UA. Streamsheets is native to stream data processing like MQTT and kafka. Pick up a topic stream, transform it and blast it back out into the endless streaming world. REST opens you the world, Streamsheets let you connect to any web service or let them connect to you. Streamsheets run in the cloud, on your servers, but also on edge devices like a Raspberry Pi.
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    IBM Event Streams
    IBM Event Streams is a fully managed event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka, designed to help enterprises process and respond to real-time data streams. With capabilities for machine learning integration, high availability, and secure cloud deployment, it enables organizations to create intelligent applications that react to events as they happen. The platform supports multi-cloud environments, disaster recovery, and geo-replication, making it ideal for mission-critical workloads. IBM Event Streams simplifies building and scaling real-time, event-driven solutions, ensuring data is processed quickly and efficiently.
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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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    Axual

    Axual

    Axual

    Axual is Kafka-as-a-Service for DevOps teams. Empower your team to unlock insights and drive decisions with our intuitive Kafka platform. Axual offers the ultimate solution for enterprises looking to seamlessly integrate data streaming into their core IT infrastructure. Our all-in-one Kafka platform is designed to eliminate the need for extensive technical knowledge or skills, and provides a ready-made solution that delivers all the benefits of event streaming without the hassle. The Axual Platform is a all-in-one solution, designed to help you simplify and enhance the deployment, management, and utilization of real-time data streaming with Apache Kafka. By providing an array of features that cater to the diverse needs of modern enterprises, the Axual Platform enables organizations to harness the full potential of data streaming while minimizing complexity and operational overhead.
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    TIBCO Platform

    TIBCO Platform

    Cloud Software Group

    TIBCO delivers industrial-strength solutions that meet your performance, throughput, reliability, and scalability needs while offering a wide range of technology and deployment options to deliver real-time data where it’s needed most. The TIBCO Platform will bring together an evolving set of your TIBCO solutions wherever they are hosted—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—into a single, unified experience so that you can more easily manage and monitor them. TIBCO helps build solutions that are essential to the success of the world’s largest enterprises.
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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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    Precisely Connect
    Integrate data seamlessly from legacy systems into next-gen cloud and data platforms with one solution. Connect helps you take control of your data from mainframe to cloud. Integrate data through batch and real-time ingestion for advanced analytics, comprehensive machine learning and seamless data migration. Connect leverages the expertise Precisely has built over decades as a leader in mainframe sort and IBM i data availability and security to lead the industry in accessing and integrating complex data. Access to all your enterprise data for the most critical business projects is ensured by support for a wide range of sources and targets for all your ELT and CDC needs.
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