[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1334},["ShallowReactive",2],{"active-banner":3,"navbar-featured-partner-blog":24,"navbar-pricing-featured":306,"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fcase-study-apache-pulsar-as-the-event-driven-backbone-of-trustgraph":1086,"blog-authors-\u002Fblog\u002Fcase-study-apache-pulsar-as-the-event-driven-backbone-of-trustgraph":1283,"related-\u002Fblog\u002Fcase-study-apache-pulsar-as-the-event-driven-backbone-of-trustgraph":1314},{"id":4,"title":5,"date":6,"dismissible":7,"extension":8,"link":9,"link2":10,"linkText":11,"linkText2":12,"meta":13,"stem":21,"variant":22,"__hash__":23},"banners\u002Fbanners\u002Flakestream-ufk-launch.md","StreamNative Introduces Lakestream Architecture and Launches Native Kafka Service","2026-04-07",true,"md","\u002Fblog\u002Ffrom-streams-to-lakestreams","https:\u002F\u002Fconsole.streamnative.cloud\u002Fsignup?from=banner_lakestream-launch","Read Announcement","Sign Up Now",{"body":14},{"type":15,"value":16,"toc":17},"minimark",[],{"title":18,"searchDepth":19,"depth":19,"links":20},"",2,[],"banners\u002Flakestream-ufk-launch","default","zRueBGutATZB0ZnFFHwaEV7F0Di4tnZUHhgOiI4cu6k",{"id":25,"title":26,"authors":27,"body":29,"category":289,"createdAt":290,"date":291,"description":292,"extension":8,"featured":7,"image":293,"isDraft":294,"link":290,"meta":295,"navigation":7,"order":296,"path":297,"readingTime":298,"relatedResources":290,"seo":299,"stem":300,"tags":301,"__hash__":305},"blogs\u002Fblog\u002Fstreamnative-recognized-in-the-forrester-wave-streaming-data-platforms-2025.md","StreamNative Recognized as a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025",[28],"David Kjerrumgaard",{"type":15,"value":30,"toc":276},[31,39,47,51,67,73,78,81,87,102,109,115,118,124,127,134,140,143,146,157,163,169,172,175,178,184,191,194,197,204,207,210,224,229,233,237,241,245,249,251,268,270],[32,33,35],"h3",{"id":34},"receives-highest-possible-scores-in-both-the-messaging-and-resource-optimization-criteria",[36,37,38],"em",{},"Receives Highest Possible Scores in BOTH the Messaging and Resource Optimization Criteria",[40,41,43],"h2",{"id":42},"introduction",[44,45,46],"strong",{},"Introduction",[48,49,50],"p",{},"Real-time data has become the backbone of modern innovation. As artificial intelligence (AI) and digital services demand instantaneous insights, organizations are realizing that streaming data is no longer optional – it's essential for delivering timely, context-rich experiences. StreamNative's data streaming platform is built precisely for this reality, ensuring data is immediate, reliable, and ready to power critical applications.",[48,52,53,54,63,64],{},"Today, we're excited to announce that Forrester Research has named StreamNative as a Contender in its evaluation, ",[55,56,58],"a",{"href":57},"\u002Freports\u002Frecognized-in-the-forrester-wave-tm-streaming-data-platforms-q4-2025",[36,59,60],{},[44,61,62],{},"The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025",". This report evaluated 15 top streaming data platform providers, and we're proud to share that ",[44,65,66],{},"StreamNative received the highest scores possible—5 out of 5—in both the Messaging and Resource Optimization criteria.",[48,68,69,70],{},"***Forrester's Take: ***",[36,71,72],{},"\"StreamNative is a good fit for enterprises that want an Apache Pulsar implementation that is also compatible with Kafka APIs.\"",[48,74,75],{},[36,76,77],{},"— The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025",[48,79,80],{},"Being recognized in the Forrester Wave is a proud milestone, and for us, it highlights how far StreamNative has come in enabling enterprises to unlock the power of real-time data. In the sections below, we'll dive into what we believe sets StreamNative apart—from our modern architecture and cloud-native design to our open-source foundation and real-time use cases—and how we see these strengths aligning with Forrester's findings.",[40,82,84],{"id":83},"trusted-by-industry-leaders",[44,85,86],{},"Trusted by Industry Leaders",[48,88,89,90,93,94,97,98,101],{},"Companies across industries are already leveraging StreamNative to drive real-time outcomes. Global enterprises like ",[44,91,92],{},"Cisco"," rely on StreamNative to handle massive IoT telemetry, supporting 245 million+ connected devices. Martech leaders such as ",[44,95,96],{},"Iterable"," process billions of events per day with StreamNative for hyper-personalized customer engagement. And in financial services, ",[44,99,100],{},"FICO"," trusts StreamNative to power its real-time fraud detection and analytics pipelines with a secure, scalable streaming backbone.",[48,103,104,105,108],{},"The Forrester report notes that, “",[36,106,107],{},"Customers appreciate the lower infrastructure costs that result from StreamNative’s cost-efficient, Kafka-compatible architecture. Customers note excellent support responsiveness…","”",[40,110,112],{"id":111},"modern-cloud-native-architecture-built-for-scale",[44,113,114],{},"Modern, Cloud-Native Architecture Built for Scale",[48,116,117],{},"From day one, StreamNative was designed with a modern architecture to meet the demanding scale and flexibility requirements of real-time data. Unlike legacy streaming systems that often rely on tightly coupled storage and compute, StreamNative's platform takes a cloud-native approach: it decouples these layers to enable elastic scalability and efficient resource utilization across any environment. The core is powered by Apache Pulsar—a distributed messaging and streaming engine—enhanced with multi-protocol support (including native Apache Kafka API compatibility) to unify diverse data streams under one roof. This means organizations can consolidate siloed messaging systems and handle both high-volume event streams and traditional message queues on a single platform, without sacrificing performance or reliability.",[48,119,120,121,108],{},"Forrester's evaluation described that “",[36,122,123],{},"StreamNative aims to provide a high-performance, multi-protocol streaming data platform: It uses Apache Pulsar with Kafka API compatibility to deliver cost-efficient, real-time applications for enterprises. It appeals to organizations that want a flexible, low-cost streaming solution, due to its focus on scalability and resource optimization, while its investments in Pulsar’s open-source ecosystem and performance optimization make it the primary platform for enterprises wishing to implement Pulsar.",[48,125,126],{},"Our cloud-first, leaderless architecture (with no single broker bottlenecks) and tiered storage model were built to maximize throughput and cost-efficiency for real-time workloads. By separating compute from storage and leveraging distributed object storage, StreamNative can retain huge volumes of event data indefinitely while keeping compute costs in check—effectively providing a flexible, low-cost streaming solution.",[48,128,129,130,133],{},"This modern design not only delivers high performance, but also ensures fault tolerance and geo-distribution out of the box, so enterprises can trust their streaming data is always available and durable. As Forrester’s evaluation noted, StreamNative ",[36,131,132],{},"\"excels at messaging and resource optimization\" and “Its platform supports use cases like real-time analytics and event-driven architectures with robust scalability.","” Our architecture provides the strong foundation that today's real-time applications demand, from ultra-fast data ingestion to seamless scale-out across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.",[40,135,137],{"id":136},"open-source-foundation-and-pulsar-expertise",[44,138,139],{},"Open Source Foundation and Pulsar Expertise",[48,141,142],{},"StreamNative's DNA is rooted in open source innovation. Our founders are the original creators of Apache Pulsar, and we've built our platform with the same open principles: freedom, flexibility, and community-driven innovation. For developers and data teams, this means adopting StreamNative comes with no proprietary lock-in—instead, you get a platform built on open standards and a thriving ecosystem. We offer broad API compatibility (Pulsar, Kafka, JMS, MQTT, and more) so that teams can work with familiar interfaces and integrate StreamNative into existing systems with ease.",[48,144,145],{},"StreamNative is the primary commercial contributor to the Apache Pulsar project and its surrounding ecosystem. We invest heavily in Pulsar's ongoing improvements our investments in Pulsar's open-source ecosystem and performance optimization bolster StreamNative's value. We also foster a vibrant community through initiatives like the Data Streaming Summit and free training resources.",[48,147,148,149,152,153,156],{},"Forrester's assessment noted that StreamNative’s “",[36,150,151],{},"events-driven agents, extensibility, and performance architecture are solid,","” and we're continuing to build on that foundation. ",[44,154,155],{},"We're actively investing in expanding our tooling for observability, governance, schema management, and developer productivity","—areas we recognize as critical for enterprise adoption and where we're committed to accelerating our roadmap.",[48,158,159,160],{},"Being open also means embracing an open ecosystem of technologies. StreamNative actively integrates with the tools and platforms that matter most to our users. We partner with industry leaders like Snowflake, Databricks, Google, and Ververica to ensure our streaming platform works seamlessly with data warehouses, lakehouse storage, and stream processing frameworks. Forrester’s evaluation observed that StreamNative’s ",[36,161,162],{},"\"investments in Pulsar’s open-source ecosystem and performance optimization make it the primary platform for enterprises wishing to implement Pulsar.\"",[40,164,166],{"id":165},"powering-real-time-use-cases-across-industries",[44,167,168],{},"Powering Real-Time Use Cases Across Industries",[48,170,171],{},"One of the greatest validations of StreamNative's approach is the success our customers are achieving with real-time data. StreamNative's platform is versatile and use-case agnostic—if an application demands high-volume, low-latency data movement, we can power it. This flexibility is why our customer base spans industries from finance and IoT to major automobile manufacturers and online gaming. The common thread is that these organizations need to process and react to data in milliseconds, and StreamNative is delivering the capabilities to make that possible.",[48,173,174],{},"Cisco uses StreamNative to underpin an IoT telemetry system of colossal scale, connecting hundreds of millions of devices and thousands of enterprise clients with real-time data streams. The platform's multi-tenant design and proven reliability allow Cisco to offer its customers a live feed of device data with unwavering confidence. In the financial sector, FICO has built streaming pipelines on StreamNative to detect fraud as transactions happen and to monitor systems in real time. With StreamNative's strong guarantees around message durability and ordering, FICO can catch anomalies or suspicious patterns within seconds. And in digital customer engagement, Iterable relies on StreamNative to process billions of events every day—clicks, views, purchases—so that marketers can trigger personalized campaigns instantly based on user behavior.",[48,176,177],{},"Our customers uniformly deal with mission-critical data streams, where downtime or delays are unacceptable. StreamNative's fault-tolerant, scalable infrastructure has proven equal to the task, handling scenarios like bursting to millions of events per second or seamlessly spanning multiple cloud regions. Forrester's report recognized StreamNative for supporting event-driven architectures with robust scalability—which for us is a reflection of our platform's ability to meet the most demanding enterprise requirements.",[40,179,181],{"id":180},"continuing-to-innovate-ursa-orca-and-the-road-ahead",[44,182,183],{},"Continuing to Innovate: Ursa, Orca, and the Road Ahead",[48,185,186,187,190],{},"While we are thrilled to be recognized in Forrester's Streaming Data Platforms Wave, we view this as just the beginning. StreamNative's vision has always been bold: to ",[44,188,189],{},"provide a unified platform that not only handles today's streaming needs but also anticipates the emerging requirements of tomorrow",".",[48,192,193],{},"One key area of focus is the convergence of streaming data with advanced analytics and AI. As Forrester points out in the report, technology leaders should look for platforms that natively integrate messaging, stream processing, and analytics to provide AI agents with real-time, contextualized information. We couldn't agree more. Our award-winning Ursa Engine and Orca Agent Engine are aimed at extending our platform up the stack—bridging the gap between data streams and data lakes, and between event streams and intelligent processing.",[48,195,196],{},"Our new Ursa Engine introduces a lakehouse-native approach to streaming: it can write events directly to table formats like Iceberg on cloud storage, eliminating entire classes of ETL jobs and making fresh data instantly available for analytics queries. By integrating streaming and lakehouse technologies, we help customers collapse data silos and accelerate their AI\u002FML pipelines.",[48,198,199,200,203],{},"Beyond analytics integration, we are also enhancing StreamNative with more out-of-the-box processing and governance capabilities. In the coming months, we plan to introduce new features for lightweight stream processing and transformation, making it easier to build reactive applications directly on the platform. We're also expanding our ecosystem of connectors and integrations, so that whether your data lands in Snowflake, Databricks, or an AI model, StreamNative will seamlessly feed it. ",[44,201,202],{},"We're investing significantly in enterprise features including security, schema registry, governance, and monitoring tooling","—capabilities that are essential for mission-critical deployments and where we're committed to continued improvement.",[48,205,206],{},"This recognition from Forrester energizes us to keep innovating at full speed. We're sharing this honor with our amazing customers, community, and partners who drive us forward every day. Your feedback and real-world challenges have helped shape StreamNative into what it is today, and together, we will shape the future of streaming data. Thank you for joining us on this journey—we're just getting started, and we can't wait to deliver even more value as we continue to evolve our platform. Onward to real-time everything!",[208,209],"hr",{},[32,211,213],{"id":212},"streamnative-in-the-forrester-wave-evaluation-findings",[44,214,215,216,223],{},"StreamNative in ",[44,217,218],{},[55,219,220],{"href":57},[44,221,222],{},"The Forrester Wave™",": Evaluation Findings",[225,226,228],"h5",{"id":227},"recognized-as-a-contender-among-15-streaming-data-platform-providers","• Recognized as a Contender among 15 streaming data platform providers",[225,230,232],{"id":231},"received-the-highest-scores-possible-50-in-both-the-messaging-and-resource-optimization-criteria","* Received the highest scores possible (5.0) in both the Messaging and Resource Optimization criteria",[225,234,236],{"id":235},"cited-as-the-primary-platform-for-enterprises-wishing-to-implement-pulsar","• Cited as the primary platform for enterprises wishing to implement Pulsar",[225,238,240],{"id":239},"noted-for-excelling-at-messaging-and-resource-optimization","• Noted for excelling at messaging and resource optimization",[225,242,244],{"id":243},"customers-cited-lower-infrastructure-costs-and-excellent-support-responsiveness","• Customers cited lower infrastructure costs and excellent support responsiveness",[225,246,248],{"id":247},"recognized-for-supporting-event-driven-architectures-with-robust-scalability","• Recognized for supporting event-driven architectures with robust scalability",[208,250],{},[252,253,255,256,259,260,190],"h6",{"id":254},"forrester-disclaimer-forrester-does-not-endorse-any-company-product-brand-or-service-included-in-its-research-publications-and-does-not-advise-any-person-to-select-the-products-or-services-of-any-company-or-brand-based-on-the-ratings-included-in-such-publications-information-is-based-on-the-best-available-resources-opinions-reflect-judgment-at-the-time-and-are-subject-to-change-for-more-information-read-about-forresters-objectivity-here","**Forrester Disclaimer: **",[36,257,258],{},"Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. 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But the real pressure point isn’t just compute—it’s data acquisition and ingestion costs.",[48,320,321],{},"As businesses rethink their AI cost-containment strategies, real-time data streaming is emerging as a critical enabler. The growing adoption of Kafka as a standard protocol has expanded cost-efficient options, allowing companies to optimize streaming analytics while keeping expenses in check.",[48,323,324],{},"Ursa, the data streaming engine powering StreamNative’s managed Kafka service, is built for this new reality. With its leaderless architecture and native lakehouse storage integration, Ursa eliminates costly inter-zone network traffic for data replication and client-to-broker communication while ensuring high availability at minimal operational cost.",[48,326,327],{},"In this blog post, we benchmarked the infrastructure cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for running a 5GB\u002Fs Kafka workload across different Kafka vendors, including Redpanda, Confluent WarpStream, and AWS MSK. Our benchmark results show that Ursa can sustain 5GB\u002Fs Kafka workloads at just 5% of the cost of traditional streaming engines like Redpanda—making it the ideal solution for high-performance, cost-efficient ingestion and data streaming for data lakehouses and AI workloads.",[48,329,330],{},"Note: We also evaluated vanilla Kafka in our benchmark; however, for simplicity, we have focused our cost comparison on vendor solutions rather than self-managed deployments. That said, it is important to highlight that both Redpanda and vanilla Kafka use a leader-based data replication approach. In a data-intensive, network-bound workload like 5GB\u002Fs streaming, with the same machine type and replication factor, Redpanda and vanilla Kafka produced nearly identical cost profiles.",[40,332,334],{"id":333},"key-benchmark-findings","Key Benchmark Findings",[48,336,337],{},"Ursa delivered 5 GB\u002Fs of sustained throughput at an infrastructure cost of just $54 per hour. 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It is fully compatible with Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar APIs, while leveraging a leaderless, lakehouse-native architecture to maximize scalability, efficiency, and cost savings.",[48,382,383],{},"Ursa’s key innovation is separating storage from compute and decoupling metadata\u002Findex operations from data operations by utilizing cloud object storage (e.g., AWS S3) instead of costly inter-zone disk-based replication. It also employs open lakehouse formats (Iceberg and Delta Lake), enabling columnar compression to significantly reduce storage costs while maintaining durability and availability.",[48,385,386],{},"In contrast, traditional streaming systems—like Kafka and Redpanda—depend on leader-based architectures, which drive up inter-zone traffic costs due to replication and client communication. Ursa mitigates these costs by:",[339,388,389,392],{},[342,390,391],{},"Eliminating inter-zone traffic costs via a leaderless architecture.",[342,393,394],{},"Replacing costly inter-zone replication with direct writes to cloud storage using open lakehouse formats.",[40,396,398],{"id":397},"how-ursa-eliminates-inter-zone-traffic","How Ursa Eliminates Inter-Zone Traffic",[48,400,401],{},"Ursa minimizes inter-zone traffic by leveraging a leaderless architecture, which eliminates inter-zone communication between clients and brokers, and lakehouse-native storage, which removes the need for inter-zone data replication. This approach ensures high availability and scalability while avoiding unnecessary cross-zone data movement.",[48,403,404],{},[351,405],{"alt":18,"src":406},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602e21b3571bb7117dca_AD_4nXd7Oahc77NjRLNvA9clLt0tsyU6MrIqVibFYv5pW5giTIcCHPr3EA_yTGzfVEUIVO3VXK56qWK8zmBCp5lY0E_4nmlWIPFrHjtHylA5NhwELjn-UB0fLG2h_kbrxrc7Cs_edvveNA.png",[32,408,410],{"id":409},"leaderless-architecture","Leaderless architecture",[48,412,413],{},"Traditional streaming engines such as Kafka, Pulsar, or RedPanda rely on a leader-based model, where each partition is assigned to a single leader broker that handles all writes and reads.",[48,415,416],{},"Pros of Leader-Based Architectures:\n✔ Maintains message ordering via local sequence IDs\n✔ Delivers low latency and high performance through message caching",[48,418,419],{},"Cons of Leader-Based Architectures:\n✖ Throughput bottlenecked by a single broker per partition\n✖ Inter-zone traffic required for high availability in multi-AZ deployments",[48,421,422],{},"While Kafka and Pulsar offer partial solutions (e.g., reading from followers, shadow topics) to reduce read-related inter-zone traffic, producers still send data to a single leader.",[48,424,425,426,431],{},"Ursa removes the concept of topic ownership, allowing any broker in the cluster to handle reads or writes for any partition. The primary challenge—ensuring message ordering—is solved with ",[55,427,430],{"href":428,"rel":429},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fstreamnative\u002Foxia",[264],"Oxia",", a scalable metadata and index service created by StreamNative in 2022.",[32,433,435],{"id":434},"oxia-the-metadata-layer-enabling-leaderless-architecture","Oxia: The Metadata Layer Enabling Leaderless Architecture",[48,437,438],{},"Ensuring message ordering in a leaderless architecture is complex, but Ursa solves this with Oxia:",[339,440,441,444,447],{},[342,442,443],{},"Handles millions of metadata\u002Findex operations per second",[342,445,446],{},"Generates sequential IDs to maintain strict message ordering",[342,448,449],{},"Optimized for Kubernetes with horizontal scalability",[48,451,452],{},"Producers and consumers can connect to any broker within their local AZ, eliminating inter-zone traffic costs while maintaining performance through localized caching.",[32,454,456],{"id":455},"zero-interzone-data-replication","Zero interzone data replication",[48,458,459],{},"In most distributed systems, data replication from a leader (primary) to followers (replicas) is crucial for fault tolerance and availability. However, replication across zones can inflate infrastructure expenses substantially.",[48,461,462],{},"Ursa avoids these costs by writing data directly to cloud storage (e.g., AWS S3, Google GCS):",[339,464,465,468,471],{},[342,466,467],{},"Built-In Resilience: Cloud storage inherently offers high availability and fault tolerance without inter-zone traffic fees.",[342,469,470],{},"Tradeoff: Slightly higher latency (sub-second, with p99 at 500 milliseconds) compared to local disk\u002FEBS (single-digit to sub-100 milliseconds), in exchange for significantly lower costs (up to 10x lower).",[342,472,473],{},"Flexible Modes: Ursa is an addition to the classic BookKeeper-based engine, providing users with the flexibility to optimize for either cost or low latency based on their workload requirements.",[48,475,476],{},"By foregoing conventional replication, Ursa slashes inter-zone traffic costs and associated complexities—making it a compelling option for organizations seeking to balance high-performance data streaming with strict budget constraints.",[40,478,480],{"id":479},"how-we-ran-a-5-gbs-test-with-ursa","How We Ran a 5 GB\u002Fs Test with Ursa",[32,482,484],{"id":483},"ursa-cluster-deployment","Ursa Cluster Deployment",[339,486,487,490],{},[342,488,489],{},"9 brokers across 3 availability zones, each on m6i.8xlarge (Fixed 12.5 Gbps bandwidth, 32 vCPU cores, 128 GB memory).",[342,491,492],{},"Oxia cluster (metadata store) with 3 nodes of m6i.8xlarge, distributed across three availability zones (AZs).",[48,494,495],{},"During peak throughput (5 GB\u002Fs), each broker’s network usage was about 10 Gbps.",[32,497,499],{"id":498},"openmessaging-benchmark-workers-configuration","OpenMessaging Benchmark Workers & Configuration",[48,501,502,503,507],{},"The OpenMessaging Benchmark(OMB) Framework is a suite of tools that make it easy to benchmark distributed messaging systems in the cloud. Please check ",[55,504,505],{"href":505,"rel":506},"https:\u002F\u002Fopenmessaging.cloud\u002Fdocs\u002Fbenchmarks\u002F",[264]," for details.",[339,509,510,525,534],{},[342,511,512,513,518,519,524],{},"12 OMB workers: 6 for ",[55,514,517],{"href":515,"rel":516},"https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fcodelipenghui\u002Fd1094122270775e4f1580947f80c5055",[264],"producers",", 6 for ",[55,520,523],{"href":521,"rel":522},"https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fcodelipenghui\u002F06bada89381fb77a7862e1b4c1d8963d",[264],"consumers"," across 3 availability zones, on m6i.8xlarge instances. Each worker is configured with 12 CPU cores and 48 GB memory.",[342,526,527,528,533],{},"Sample YAML ",[55,529,532],{"href":530,"rel":531},"https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fcodelipenghui\u002F204c1f26c4d44a218ae235bf2de99904",[264],"scripts"," provided for Kafka-compatible configuration and rate limits.",[342,535,536],{},"Achieved consistent 5 GB\u002Fs publish\u002Fsubscribe throughput.",[40,538,540],{"id":539},"ursa-benchmark-tests-results","Ursa Benchmark Tests & Results",[48,542,543],{},"The following diagram demonstrates that Ursa can consistently handle 5 GB\u002Fs of traffic, fully saturating the network across all broker nodes.",[48,545,546],{},[351,547],{"alt":18,"src":548},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602d7b261bac1113f7d6_AD_4nXdDPsRc3koXICiFF0bqSmGWbJt_RlUy4FE3ruuWOfbCfpcqZ1dejjqGbkaCJv2hQFL1nirRouBVRW2l5uMWBvY9naMqGB_wHcLI14dBM0f85TXhmdm3UxEv1yGX9Y4hf5FttSkZew.png",[40,550,552],{"id":551},"comparing-infrastructure-cost","Comparing Infrastructure Cost",[48,554,555],{},"This benchmark first evaluates infrastructure costs of running a 5 GB\u002Fs streaming workload (1:1 producer-to-consumer ratio) across different data streaming engines, including Ursa, Redpanda, and AWS MSK, with a focus on multi-AZ deployments to ensure a fair comparison.",[32,557,559],{"id":558},"test-setup-key-assumptions","Test Setup & Key Assumptions",[48,561,562],{},"All tests use multi-AZ configurations, with clusters and clients distributed across three AWS availability zones (AZs). Cluster size scales proportionally to the number of AZs, and rack-awareness is enabled for all engines to evenly distribute topic partitions and leaders.",[48,564,565],{},"To ensure a fair comparison, we selected the same machine type capable of fully utilizing both network and storage bandwidth for Ursa and Redpanda in this 5GB\u002Fs test:",[339,567,568],{},[342,569,570],{},"9 × m6i.8xlarge instances",[48,572,573,574,579],{},"However, MSK's storage bandwidth limits vary depending on the selected instance type, with the highest allowed limit capped at 1000 MiB\u002Fs per broker, according to",[55,575,578],{"href":576,"rel":577},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.aws.amazon.com\u002Fmsk\u002Flatest\u002Fdeveloperguide\u002Fmsk-provision-throughput-management.html#throughput-bottlenecks",[264]," AWS documentation",". Given this constraint, achieving 5 GB\u002Fs throughput with a replication factor of 3 required the following setup:",[339,581,582],{},[342,583,584],{},"15 × kafka.m7g.8xlarge (32 vCPUs, 128 GB memory, 15 Gbps network, 4000 GiB EBS).",[48,586,587],{},"This configuration was necessary to work around MSK's storage bandwidth limitations, ensuring a comparable cost basis to other evaluated streaming engines.",[48,589,590],{},"Additional key assumptions include:",[339,592,593,596,599],{},[342,594,595],{},"Inter-AZ producer traffic: For leader-based engines, two-thirds of producer-to-broker traffic crosses AZs due to leader distribution.",[342,597,598],{},"Consumer optimizations: Follower fetch is enabled across all tests, eliminating inter-AZ consumer traffic.",[342,600,601],{},"Storage cost exclusions: This benchmark only evaluates streaming costs, assuming no long-term data retention.",[32,603,605],{"id":604},"inter-broker-replication-costs","Inter-Broker Replication Costs",[48,607,608],{},"Inter-broker (cross-AZ) replication is a major cost driver for data streaming engines:",[339,610,611,614,617],{},[342,612,613],{},"RedPanda: Inter-broker replication is not free, leading to substantial costs when data must be copied across multiple availability zones.",[342,615,616],{},"AWS MSK: Inter-broker replication is free, but MSK instance pricing is significantly higher (e.g., $3.264 per hour for kafka.m7g.8xlarge vs $1.306 per hour for an on-demand m7g.8xlarge). The storage price of MSK is $0.10 per GB-month which is significantly higher than st1, which costs $0.045 per GB-month. Even though replication is free, client-to-broker traffic still incurs inter-AZ charges.",[342,618,619],{},"Ursa: No inter-broker replication costs due to its leaderless architecture, eliminating inter-zone replication costs entirely.",[32,621,623],{"id":622},"zone-affinity-reducing-inter-az-costs","Zone Affinity: Reducing Inter-AZ Costs",[48,625,626],{},"We evaluated zone affinity mechanisms to further reduce inter-AZ data transfer costs.",[48,628,629],{},"Consumers:",[339,631,632],{},[342,633,634],{},"Follower fetch is enabled across all tests, ensuring consumers fetch data from replicas in their local AZ—eliminating inter-zone consumer traffic except for metadata lookups",[48,636,637],{},"Producers:",[339,639,640,649,658],{},[342,641,642,643,648],{},"Kafka protocol lacks an easy way to enforce producer AZ affinity (though ",[55,644,647],{"href":645,"rel":646},"https:\u002F\u002Fcwiki.apache.org\u002Fconfluence\u002Fdisplay\u002FKAFKA\u002FKIP-1123:+Rack-aware+partitioning+for+Kafka+Producer",[264],"KIP-1123"," aims to address this). And it only works with the default partitioner (i.e., when no record partition or record key is specified).",[342,650,651,652,657],{},"Redpanda recently introduced ",[55,653,656],{"href":654,"rel":655},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.redpanda.com\u002Fredpanda-cloud\u002Fdevelop\u002Fproduce-data\u002Fleader-pinning\u002F",[264],"leader pinning",", but this only benefits setups where producers are confined to a single AZ—not applicable to our multi-AZ benchmark.",[342,659,660,661,666],{},"Ursa is the only system in this test with ",[55,662,665],{"href":663,"rel":664},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.streamnative.io\u002Fdocs\u002Fconfig-kafka-client#eliminate-cross-az-networking-traffic",[264],"built-in zone affinity for both producers and consumers",". It achieves this by embedding producer AZ information in client.id, allowing metadata lookups to route clients to local-AZ brokers, eliminating inter-AZ producer traffic.",[32,668,670],{"id":669},"cost-comparison-results","Cost Comparison Results",[48,672,337],{},[339,674,675,677],{},[342,676,344],{},[342,678,347],{},[48,680,681],{},"Ursa’s leaderless architecture, zone affinity, and native cloud storage integration deliver unparalleled cost efficiency, making it the most cost-effective choice for high-throughput data streaming workloads.",[48,683,684],{},[351,685],{"alt":18,"src":686},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c72208198ca36a352f228_AD_4nXeeZuM8T-xBlD4Vf3j67K618n08qh8wIDLLtiLJG0ssA1Wj1V26u7wIDTX9sqLrtw8mB2c299dwzarGen62CG0Vh7nWstn5qbPGFcBaKJYEepTsLr5fHWv1U8uqbg8Y0UOK6fJ7.png",[48,688,689],{},[351,690],{"alt":18,"src":691},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c625978031f40229de484_AD_4nXdLkLLJ30KKr-_A_rN1j8akVwBYacAWIPzWHoOReJF421890kfByZoQQxkLczihVSmiw5Q9J51-V9I2SEKITbwsYnANDDTlAVL5nQ_jfaHNTe9VEWhSoa7DZooCnilDYL6l6msmJg.png",[48,693,694],{},"The detailed infrastructure cost calculations for each data streaming engine are listed below:",[32,696,698],{"id":697},"streamnative-ursa","StreamNative - Ursa",[339,700,701,704,707,710],{},[342,702,703],{},"Server EC2 costs: 9 * $1.536\u002Fhr = $14",[342,705,706],{},"Client EC2 costs: 9 * $1.536\u002Fhr =$14",[342,708,709],{},"S3 write requests costs: 1350 r\u002Fs * $0.005\u002F1000r * 3600s = $24",[342,711,712],{},"S3 read requests costs: 1350 r\u002Fs * $0.0004\u002F1000r * 3600s = $2",[32,714,716],{"id":715},"aws-msk","AWS MSK",[339,718,719,722,725],{},[342,720,721],{},"Server EC2 costs: 15 * $3.264\u002Fhr = $49",[342,723,724],{},"Client side EC2 costs: 9 * $1.536\u002Fhr =$14",[342,726,727],{},"Interzone traffic - producer to broker: 5GB\u002Fs * ⅔ * $0.02\u002FG(in+out) * 3600 = $240",[32,729,731],{"id":730},"redpanda","RedPanda",[339,733,734,736,738,741,744],{},[342,735,703],{},[342,737,706],{},[342,739,740],{},"Interzone traffic - producer to broker: 5GB\u002Fs * ⅔ * $0.02\u002FGB(in+out) * 3600 = $240",[342,742,743],{},"Interzone traffic - replication: 10GB\u002Fs * $0.02\u002FGB(in+out) * 3600 = $720",[342,745,746],{},"Interzone traffic - broker to consumer: $0 (fetch from local zone)",[48,748,749,750,755],{},"Please note that we were unable to test ",[55,751,754],{"href":752,"rel":753},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.redpanda.com\u002Fblog\u002Fcloud-topics-streaming-data-object-storage",[264],"Redpanda with Cloud Topics",", as it remains an announced but unreleased feature and is not yet available for evaluation. Based on the limited information available, while Cloud Topics may help optimize inter-zone data replication costs, producers still need to traverse inter-availability zones to connect to the topic partition owners and incur inter-zone traffic costs of up to $240 per hour.",[339,757,758,764],{},[342,759,760,763],{},[55,761,647],{"href":645,"rel":762},[264]," (when implemented) will help mitigate producer-to-broker inter-zone traffic, but it is not yet available. And it only works with the default partitioner (no record partition or key is specified).",[342,765,766],{},"Redpanda’s leader pinning helps only when all producers for the pinned topic are confined to a single AZ. In multi-AZ environments (like our benchmark), inter-zone producer traffic remains unavoidable.",[48,768,769],{},"Additionally, Redpanda’s Cloud Topics architecture is not documented publicly. Their blog mentions \"leader placement rules to optimize produce latency and ingress cost,\" but it is unclear whether this represents a shift away from a leader-based architecture or if it uses techniques similar to Ursa’s zone-aware approach.",[48,771,772],{},"We may revisit this comparison as more details become available.",[40,774,776],{"id":775},"comparing-total-cost-of-ownership","Comparing Total Cost of Ownership",[48,778,779],{},"As highlighted earlier, with a BYOC Ursa setup, you can achieve 5 GB\u002Fs throughput at just 5% of the infrastructure cost of a traditional leader-based data streaming engine, such as Kafka or RedPanda, while managing the infrastructure yourself. This significant cost reduction is enabled by Ursa’s leaderless architecture and lakehouse-native storage design, which eliminate overhead costs such as inter-zone traffic and leader-based data replication. By leveraging a lakehouse-native, leaderless architecture, Ursa reduces resource requirements, enabling you to handle high data throughput efficiently and at a fraction of the cost of RedPanda.",[48,781,782],{},"Now, let’s examine the total cost comparison, evaluating Ursa alongside other vendors, including those that have adopted a leaderless architecture (e.g., Confluent WarpStream). This comparison is based on a 5GB\u002Fs workload with a 7-day retention period, factoring in both storage cost and vendor costs Here are the key findings:",[339,784,785,788,791],{},[342,786,787],{},"Ursa ($164,353\u002Fmonth) is: 50% cheaper than Confluent WarpStream ($337,068\u002Fmonth)",[342,789,790],{},"85% cheaper than AWS MSK ($1,115,251\u002Fmonth)",[342,792,793],{},"86% cheaper than Redpanda ($1,202,853\u002Fmonth)",[48,795,796],{},"In addition to Ursa’s architectural advantages—eliminating most inter-AZ traffic and leveraging lakehouse storage for cost-effective data retention—it also adopts a more fair and cost-efficient pricing model: Elastic Throughput-based pricing. This approach aligns costs with actual usage, avoiding unnecessary overhead.",[48,798,799],{},"Unlike WarpStream, which charges for both storage and throughput, Ursa ensures that customers only pay for the throughput they actively use. Ursa’s pricing is based on compressed data sent by clients, meaning the more data compressed on the client side, the lower the cost. In contrast, WarpStream prices are based on uncompressed data, unfairly inflating expenses and failing to incentivize customers to optimize their client applications.",[48,801,802],{},"This distinction is crucial, as compressed data reduces both storage and network costs, making Ursa’s pricing model not only more cost-effective but also more transparent and predictable.",[48,804,805],{},[351,806],{"alt":18,"src":807},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602d194800c9206d9d58_AD_4nXcFlf755xgyz7htxhMhBV5fGrsxy642mQNodt61DTok_z1dwkw5A6lkO5hatXVneCaB0anbZPAyvLI3MlIMuQEYLEACHHvQMOr5UfaB37dfzkdqewDEvcT-20VGd_zzvJsuA00zGA.png",[48,809,810],{},[351,811],{"alt":18,"src":812},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c62594e9c2e629fae73aa_AD_4nXeU6cOgItnjLsEZCOf13TEvMY_SHWWIxYP2OYUj-B1GUPyWO78OG08K_v03hwYSVcg06f9dqDiGmdwy76vynjmiDGL5bluZ5_XF4nSU_r59oOZdfViXndXt6s11vVOY7qwfZN8v.png",[32,814,816],{"id":815},"cost-breakdown","Cost Breakdown",[818,819,820],"h4",{"id":697},"StreamNative – Ursa",[339,822,823,826,829,832,835],{},[342,824,825],{},"EC2 (Server): 9 × $1.536\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $9,953.28",[342,827,828],{},"S3 Write Requests: 1,350 r\u002Fs × $0.005\u002F1,000 r × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $17,496",[342,830,831],{},"S3 Read Requests: 1,350 r\u002Fs × $0.0004\u002F1,000 r × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $1,400",[342,833,834],{},"S3 Storage Costs: 5 GB\u002Fs × $0.021\u002FGB × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 7 days = $63,504",[342,836,837],{},"Vendor Cost: 200 ETU × $0.50\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $72,000",[818,839,841],{"id":840},"warpstream","WarpStream",[339,843,844,847],{},[342,845,846],{},"Based on WarpStream’s pricing calculator (as of January 29, 2025), we assume a 4:1 client data compression ratio, meaning 20 GB\u002Fs of uncompressed data translates to 5 GB\u002Fs of compressed data.",[342,848,849,850,855],{},"It's important to note that WarpStream’s pricing structure has fluctuated frequently throughout January. We observed the cost reported by their calculator changing from $409,644 per month to $337,068 per month. This variability has been previously highlighted in the blog post “",[55,851,854],{"href":852,"rel":853},"https:\u002F\u002Fbigdata.2minutestreaming.com\u002Fp\u002Fthe-brutal-truth-about-apache-kafka-cost-calculators",[264],"The Brutal Truth About Kafka Cost Calculators","”. To ensure transparency, we have documented the pricing as of January 29, 2025.",[48,857,858],{},[351,859],{"alt":18,"src":860},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602e42713e0028e9af5e_AD_4nXcu5_VWTLu9jRYs6zX1MBAOtLQEo5gyfNSWPcbpnQHXTa8qNCFAXezRR2E8daygzYTTwd4dhJjaLaLM8C6y_3OGbu2NS7pdvEv3a8-ptNKOg7AeKnYqPQCAYvQ5EuxzuI3JYIvY.png",[818,862,864],{"id":863},"msk","MSK",[339,866,867,870,873],{},[342,868,869],{},"EC2 (Server): 15 * $3.264\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $35,251",[342,871,872],{},"Interzone Traffic (Client-Server): 5 GB\u002Fs × ⅔ × $0.02\u002FGB (in+out) × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $172,800",[342,874,875],{},"Storage: 5 GB\u002Fs × $0.1\u002FGB-month × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 7 days * 3 replicas = $907,200",[818,877,731],{"id":878},"redpanda-1",[339,880,881,884,886,889,892],{},[342,882,883],{},"EC2 (Server): 9 × $1.536\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $9953",[342,885,872],{},[342,887,888],{},"Interzone Traffic (Replication): 5 GB\u002Fs × 2 × $0.02\u002FGB (in+out) × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $518,400",[342,890,891],{},"Storage: 5 GB\u002Fs × $0.045\u002FGB-month(st1) × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 7 days * 3 replicas = $408,240",[342,893,894],{},"Vendor Cost: $93,333 per month (based on limited information. See additional notes below).",[818,896,898],{"id":897},"additional-notes","Additional Notes",[339,900,901],{},[342,902,903,904,909],{},"Redpanda does not publicly disclose its BYOC pricing, making it difficult to accurately assess its total costs. We refer to information from the whitepaper “",[55,905,908],{"href":906,"rel":907},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.redpanda.com\u002Fresources\u002Fredpanda-vs-confluent-performance-tco-benchmark-report#form",[264],"Redpanda vs. Confluent: A Performance and TCO Benchmark Report by McKnight Consulting Group.","” for estimation purposes. Based on the Tier-8 pricing model in the whitepaper,  the estimated cost to support a 5GB\u002Fs workload would be $1.12 million per year ($93,333 per month). However, since this calculation is based on an estimation, we will revisit and refine the cost assessment once Redpanda publishes its BYOC pricing.",[48,911,912],{},[351,913],{"alt":18,"src":914},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602dc8a9859eed89a0ef_AD_4nXdbcO8vsNNPy4GtkNLlmNKf22fjxRvzLzH7CtOna1L08sTbvnZx3HhufeFqc1w4K2gEF7lxO2IR5supotxebAiGnA07Qa8Yr3Rd1pVK2LYKK4WurlJGwgdwwucZIFoF-N_2oBjY.png",[48,916,917],{},[351,918],{"alt":18,"src":919},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602d6bc1c2287e012540_AD_4nXfcHZnLfjbjIr3ZAgoQXT9dwP3aQCOQPmGZZJUtpNZSwE6qY6M3yehIaBxCwxEIeu5PVdUPY0zhyjnow26YfgjdYgSG4GnV9ibxu0YWTIpwng6z_F6FUGJMpERMKtpsFESzXSN_Sw.png",[339,921,922,925],{},[342,923,924],{},"When estimating the storage costs for Kafka and Redpanda, we assume the use of HDD storage at $0.045\u002FGB, based on the premise that both systems can fully utilize disk bandwidth without incurring the higher costs associated with GP2 or GP3 volumes. However, in practice, many users opt for GP2 or GP3, significantly increasing the total storage cost for Kafka and Redpanda.",[342,926,927],{},"Unlike disk-based solutions, S3 storage does not require capacity preallocation—Ursa only incurs costs for the actual data stored. This contrasts with Kafka and Redpanda, where preallocating storage can drive up expenses. As a result, the real-world storage costs for Kafka and Redpanda are often 50% higher than the estimates above.",[40,929,931],{"id":930},"conclusion","Conclusion",[48,933,934],{},"Ursa represents a transformative shift in streaming data infrastructure, offering cost efficiency, scalability, and flexibility without compromising durability or reliability. By leveraging a leaderless architecture and eliminating inter-zone data replication, Ursa reduces total cost of ownership by over 90% compared to traditional leader-based streaming engines like Kafka and Redpanda. Its direct integration with cloud storage and scalable metadata & index management via Oxia ensure high availability and simplified infrastructure management.",[32,936,938],{"id":937},"balancing-latency-and-cost","Balancing Latency and Cost",[48,940,941,945],{},[55,942,944],{"href":943},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcap-theorem-for-data-streaming","Ursa trades off slightly higher latency for ultra low cost",", making it an ideal choice for the majority of streaming workloads, especially those that prioritize throughput and cost savings over ultra-low latency. Meanwhile, StreamNative’s BookKeeper-based engine remains the preferred solution for real-time, latency-sensitive applications. By combining these two approaches, StreamNative empowers customers with the flexibility to choose the right engine for their specific needs—whether it's maximizing cost savings or achieving ultra low-latency real-time performance.",[32,947,949],{"id":948},"the-future-of-streaming-infrastructure","The Future of Streaming Infrastructure",[48,951,952],{},"In an era where data fuels AI, analytics, and real-time decision-making, managing infrastructure costs is critical to sustaining innovation. Ursa is not just a cost-cutting alternative—it is a forward-thinking, lakehouse-native platform that redefines how modern data streaming infrastructure should be built and operated.",[48,954,955,956,961],{},"Whether your priority is reducing costs, improving flexibility, or ingesting massive data into lakehouses, Ursa delivers a future-proof solution for the evolving demands of real-time data streaming. 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See our benchmark results comparing infrastructure costs, total cost of ownership (TCO), and performance across leading Kafka vendors.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c6593d25099b1cdcec4ca_image-31.png",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-we-run-a-5-gb-s-kafka-workload-for-just-50-per-hour","30 min",{"title":308,"description":1075},"blog\u002Fhow-we-run-a-5-gb-s-kafka-workload-for-just-50-per-hour",[1083,1084,303],"TCO","Apache Kafka","A0o_2xdJiLI6rf6xj4RKsxJNo_A6QN2fYzCp6gaLrFw",{"id":1087,"title":1088,"authors":1089,"body":1092,"category":1271,"createdAt":290,"date":1272,"description":1273,"extension":8,"featured":294,"image":1274,"isDraft":294,"link":290,"meta":1275,"navigation":7,"order":296,"path":1276,"readingTime":1277,"relatedResources":290,"seo":1278,"stem":1279,"tags":1280,"__hash__":1282},"blogs\u002Fblog\u002Fcase-study-apache-pulsar-as-the-event-driven-backbone-of-trustgraph.md","Case Study: Apache Pulsar as the Event-Driven Backbone of TrustGraph",[1090,1091],"Daniel Davis","Mark Adams",{"type":15,"value":1093,"toc":1263},[1094,1098,1101,1105,1108,1122,1125,1129,1132,1176,1179,1183,1186,1203,1206,1210,1213,1231,1234,1244,1250,1253,1257,1260],[40,1095,1097],{"id":1096},"introduction-the-challenge-of-building-an-ai-platform","‍Introduction: The Challenge of Building an AI Platform",[48,1099,1100],{},"Late one afternoon, a team of developers set out to build TrustGraph – an open-source AI product creation platform aimed at orchestrating sophisticated AI agents. They faced a familiar challenge: how to connect a constellation of microservices (knowledge extractors, vector indexers, agent runtimes, etc.) into one cohesive system that can scale and adapt dynamically. Traditional point-to-point integrations felt brittle and hard to scale. The team needed a nervous system for their platform – a messaging backbone that could seamlessly link all components in real-time. Enter Apache Pulsar, the technology that would become the high-performance core of TrustGraph’s event-driven architecture. Pulsar (with enterprise support from StreamNative) offered exactly what TrustGraph needed: a reliable publish\u002Fsubscribe foundation with the flexibility to handle everything from real-time agent queries to large-scale data ingestion. What follows is the story of how Pulsar powers TrustGraph, enabling developers to build modular AI systems that are scalable, resilient, and a joy to work with.",[40,1102,1104],{"id":1103},"why-trustgraph-chose-pulsar-as-its-backbone","Why TrustGraph Chose Pulsar as its Backbone",[48,1106,1107],{},"From the outset, the TrustGraph engineers recognized that building a scalable AI platform meant embracing event-driven design. They needed a messaging layer that could support diverse workloads – from synchronous API calls to asynchronous data pipelines – without becoming a bottleneck. Apache Pulsar stood out for several reasons:",[339,1109,1110,1113,1116,1119],{},[342,1111,1112],{},"It “just works” for ops: Pulsar provides an operations-friendly way to connect complex processing elements. Its simplicity in managing communication patterns and scaling freed the team from writing custom pipeline glue code. Site reliability engineers could focus on deploying and monitoring AI capabilities rather than debugging message passing.",[342,1114,1115],{},"Native Pub\u002FSub Model: Pulsar’s publish-subscribe architecture was a perfect fit for TrustGraph’s decoupled microservices. Components like the Knowledge Graph Builder, AI Agent Runtime, and data processors communicate by publishing events and subscribing to the topics they care about – no direct dependencies needed. This decoupling means each service can evolve or scale independently, a critical requirement for a modular AI platform.",[342,1117,1118],{},"Persistent and Non-Persistent Topics: Pulsar uniquely lets you choose between persistent and non-persistent messaging. TrustGraph leverages this to balance reliability vs. latency. For critical data (e.g. ingesting documents into a knowledge base), TrustGraph uses persistent topics to guarantee delivery – ensuring no data is lost even if a service goes down. Conversely, for high-speed, ephemeral interactions (like an AI agent responding to a user query), TrustGraph uses non-persistent topics to minimize overhead and latency. This flexible messaging guarantees that each use-case gets the right trade-off between speed and safety.",[342,1120,1121],{},"Multi-Tenancy and Isolation: Pulsar’s built-in multi-tenancy (via tenants and namespaces) proved invaluable for TrustGraph’s vision of dynamic “Flows.” A Flow in TrustGraph is essentially an isolated AI pipeline or workspace. Pulsar’s tenant\u002Fnamespace model allows TrustGraph to create isolated channels for each Flow, ensuring that projects or tenants don’t interfere with each other’s data streams. This strong isolation was critical for enabling TrustGraph to support multiple concurrent AI agent workflows in one cluster, whether they belong to different teams, customers, or use cases.",[48,1123,1124],{},"In summary, Pulsar provided the scalability, flexibility, and reliability that TrustGraph needed in a messaging backbone. As Mark Adams, Co-founder of TrustGraph, put it, building on Pulsar gave them confidence that the communication layer would not be the limiting factor in scaling intelligent agents. It laid a rock-solid foundation on which to construct an AI platform ready for both rapid iteration and production-grade stability.",[40,1126,1128],{"id":1127},"architecting-trustgraph-with-pulsar-key-patterns","Architecting TrustGraph with Pulsar: Key Patterns",[48,1130,1131],{},"With Apache Pulsar at its core, TrustGraph’s architecture evolved a set of powerful patterns. These patterns illustrate how Pulsar’s features are used in practice to create an event-driven, modular AI system:",[1133,1134,1135,1138,1149,1155,1158,1161],"ol",{},[342,1136,1137],{},"Dynamic and Scalable “Flows”: In TrustGraph, a Flow represents a configurable pipeline of AI tasks (for example, a data ingestion flow or an agent reasoning flow). Some services are global (shared across all Flows), while others are flow-specific. Pulsar enables this dynamic behavior through dynamic queue naming and creation.Global Services (like configuration, knowledge base, and librarian APIs) listen on well-known, fixed Pulsar topics since they are always available and shared.",[342,1139,1140,1141,1145,1146],{},"Flow-Hosted Services (like a GraphRAG processor, Agent runtime, or custom embeddings service) spin up when a new Flow is started. TrustGraph automatically generates unique Pulsar topics for that Flow’s services. For example, if a Flow is named ",[1142,1143,1144],"code",{},"research-flow",", the GraphRAG service in that flow might publish\u002Fsubscribe on topics named:",[1142,1147,1148],{},"non-persistent:\u002F\u002Ftg\u002Frequest\u002Fgraph-rag:research-flow",[342,1150,1151,1154],{},[1142,1152,1153],{},"non-persistent:\u002F\u002Ftg\u002Fresponse\u002Fgraph-rag:research-flow"," Each new Flow gets its own set of topics, isolating its traffic. Multiple Flows can run concurrently without stepping on each other’s messages – a huge win for multi-project and multi-tenant deployments. When the Flow is stopped, its topics can be torn down just as easily. This dynamic provisioning of queues means the platform can scale out new pipelines on the fly with full isolation, all thanks to Pulsar’s flexible naming and multi-tenancy.",[342,1156,1157],{},"Diverse Communication Patterns (Pub\u002FSub Flexibility): TrustGraph doesn’t force a one-size-fits-all messaging style; instead, it uses Pulsar to support different interaction patterns within the platform:Request\u002FResponse Messaging: For interactive services—such as an AI Agent API or the GraphRAG query service—TrustGraph sets up dedicated request and response topics. For example, when a user’s query hits the Agent service, it is published to a request topic, the agent processes it, and the answer comes back on a response topic tied to that user’s session or flow. This pub\u002Fsub request-response pattern feels like a direct call from the client’s perspective, but under the hood it’s decoupled and asynchronous. The client can await a response without knowing which specific service instance will handle it. This pattern gives synchronous behavior on top of asynchronous internals, combining interactivity with scalability.",[342,1159,1160],{},"Fire-and-Forget Ingestion: For one-way data pipelines like ingesting documents, TrustGraph uses a simpler fire-and-forget approach. A client (say, a data loader component or a user uploading a file) will publish data to an ingestion topic and immediately move on. Downstream processor services (e.g. a Text Load service or a Triples Store loader) are subscribed and will process the data in due course. Crucially, these ingestion topics are persistent in Pulsar. This guarantees that if a processor is slow or temporarily down, the data remains in the queue until processed, ensuring no loss. Developers benefit by not having to babysit the pipeline – they trust Pulsar to eventually deliver data when the consumers are ready, improving the system’s resilience to spikes or faults.",[342,1162,1163,1164,1167,1168,1171,1172,1175],{},"Centralized, Push-Based Configuration: Running a complex AI platform means lots of configuration: prompts for the LLM, tool definitions for agents, pipeline parameters, etc. TrustGraph chose to manage configuration changes through Pulsar as well, turning config into an event stream. There is a dedicated Pulsar topic (e.g. ",[1142,1165,1166],{},"persistent:\u002F\u002Ftg\u002Fconfig\u002Fconfig",") that acts as a central config channel. Whenever an administrator or developer updates a configuration – for instance, adjusting a prompt template or adding a new tool plugin – that update is published as a message on the config topic. All services that care about config subscribe to this channel. TrustGraph’s services (built on common base classes ",[1142,1169,1170],{},"FlowProcessor"," or ",[1142,1173,1174],{},"AsyncProcessor",") are designed to receive these config events and reconfigure themselves on the fly. The moment a new Flow is launched or a parameter changes, every component gets the memo via Pulsar and updates its behavior without needing a restart. This push-based config distribution makes the platform highly dynamic – developers can deploy new capabilities or tune the system in real-time, and Pulsar ensures a consistent configuration state across the distributed system.",[48,1177,1178],{},"These patterns highlight a theme: Pulsar decouples parts of the system while keeping them coordinated. Dynamic topic creation lets TrustGraph scale out new processing flows easily. Multiple messaging patterns let each service communicate in the style that fits its role. A config event stream keeps everything in sync. All of it is implemented on Pulsar’s robust pub\u002Fsub substrate, meaning it inherits Pulsar’s strengths like horizontal scalability, durability, and back-pressure handling.",[40,1180,1182],{"id":1181},"benefits-to-developers-and-ai-teams","Benefits to Developers and AI Teams",[48,1184,1185],{},"By weaving Pulsar so deeply into its design, TrustGraph reaps numerous benefits that directly address pain points developers often face in building AI systems:",[339,1187,1188,1191,1194,1197,1200],{},[342,1189,1190],{},"Easier Scaling: Need to handle more load? Simply add more consumers to a Pulsar topic to scale out a microservice – no complex rebalancing needed. Because each TrustGraph component processes messages from a queue, scaling is as straightforward as running another instance that subscribes to the same topic. For example, if the AI Agent requests spike, the team can spin up additional agent service containers; Pulsar will automatically distribute requests among them. This elasticity means the system can handle varying workloads on different parts of the AI pipeline without a hitch.",[342,1192,1193],{},"Resilience and Fault Tolerance: Pulsar’s persistent messaging ensures critical data isn’t lost if something fails. Developers don’t have to write custom retry logic or worry about data gaps – if the Knowledge Graph builder goes down for a bit, all pending documents remain queued. When it comes back up, it picks up where it left off. Also, thanks to the decoupled design, a failure in one component (e.g., the vector embedding service) won’t crash the entire platform. Messages will queue up until that service recovers, while the rest of the system continues unaffected. This isolation containing failures makes the overall platform more robust in production.",[342,1195,1196],{},"Flexibility for New Features: The dynamic Flow architecture allows teams to deploy new pipelines or custom components without modifying the core system. Because Pulsar handles the routing, a new service can be introduced by simply defining the topics it will use and plugging it in. This pluggable architecture means TrustGraph can evolve quickly. For instance, a developer could add a new “Sentiment Analysis” microservice into a Flow by having it subscribe to an intermediate topic – no need for a full redeploy or breaking existing flows. Pulsar’s multi-tenant setup means this can happen in an isolated way, so experimentation in one Flow won’t disrupt others.",[342,1198,1199],{},"Better Observability: With Pulsar as the central hub for all messages, it provides a one-stop view into the system’s activity. TrustGraph takes advantage of Pulsar’s metrics – like message rates, consumer backlogs, throughput, and latency per topic – to give developers deep insight into how each part of the platform is performing. These metrics feed into Grafana dashboards where the team can see, for example, if the “ingestion queue” is backing up or if the “response times on the agent request topic” are rising. Such observability helps pinpoint bottlenecks quickly (maybe a vector DB is slow, causing a backlog) and aids in capacity planning. It essentially turns Pulsar into a stethoscope on the health of the AI platform.",[342,1201,1202],{},"Faster Iteration: Perhaps most importantly, this Pulsar-driven architecture empowers faster development cycles. Because adding new flows or services is low-friction, developers can prototype new AI capabilities without weeks of pipeline engineering. The combination of fewer bottlenecks, auto-scaling behavior, safe fault handling, and real-time config updates means the team spends less time on infrastructure and more on innovating AI features. In practice, that could mean quickly trying a new large language model in the Agent service or connecting an experimental knowledge source – TrustGraph will handle the messaging and integration details, so the developer can focus on the AI logic.",[48,1204,1205],{},"All these benefits fundamentally spring from Pulsar’s role as a unified messaging layer. It abstracts away the hard parts of distributed communication (scaling, reliability, ordering, isolation), letting developers concentrate on building intelligent agents and knowledge pipelines.",[40,1207,1209],{"id":1208},"pulsar-in-action-a-day-in-the-life-with-trustgraph","Pulsar in Action: A Day in the Life with TrustGraph",[48,1211,1212],{},"To cement how Pulsar powers real-world usage of TrustGraph, let’s walk through a hypothetical scenario:",[48,1214,1215,1216,1218,1219,1222,1223,1226,1227,1230],{},"Meet Alice, an AI engineer at an enterprise, who is using TrustGraph to build a new AI-powered research assistant. She begins her day by defining a new processing Flow for the project, aptly named ",[1142,1217,1144],{},". When Alice starts this Flow via TrustGraph’s CLI, under the hood the platform spins up microservices for that Flow – an Agent service, a GraphRAG service, an Embeddings service, etc. – each with their own Pulsar topics. Alice doesn’t have to manually configure any queues; Pulsar automatically provisions topics like ",[1142,1220,1221],{},"tg\u002Frequest\u002Fgraph-rag:research-flow"," and ",[1142,1224,1225],{},"tg\u002Fresponse\u002Fgraph-rag:research-flow"," for her new Flow. Immediately, her Flow’s services begin running in isolation. In fact, a colleague can launch a separate ",[1142,1228,1229],{},"analysis-flow"," in parallel, and thanks to Pulsar, the two sets of services won’t conflict. This allows different teams to use TrustGraph on the same infrastructure, each with their own dedicated message streams.",[48,1232,1233],{},"Later that morning, Alice feeds a batch of documents (PDF reports) into TrustGraph for ingestion. As she uploads them via the Workbench UI, each document’s content is published as a message to the Text Load service’s Pulsar topic. The ingestion is designed as fire-and-forget – the upload request immediately returns, and Alice can go grab a coffee while TrustGraph pipelines the data. Pulsar’s persistent queue means even if the Text Load processor or downstream Knowledge Graph builder is busy, all documents will be queued reliably. After a brief break, Alice checks the dashboard: the documents are being processed one by one, and there are no errors. One of the processing containers did restart (maybe due to a transient error), but because of Pulsar, no data was lost and the pipeline resumed automatically once the service recovered. Alice silently thanks the decision to use Pulsar; in past projects with DIY messaging, a crash often meant writing custom retry logic or manual data cleanup, but not anymore.",[48,1235,1236,1237,1240,1241,1243],{},"In the afternoon, Alice decides to improve the AI agent’s behavior by tweaking its prompt and adding a new tool for it. She opens TrustGraph’s configuration UI and updates the prompt template and registers an external API as a new tool. The moment she hits “Save”, TrustGraph’s Config service publishes an update event to ",[1142,1238,1239],{},"tg\u002Fconfig\u002Fconfig"," topic. All running services in ",[1142,1242,1144],{}," receive this update within milliseconds, thanks to their Pulsar subscriptions. The Agent runtime immediately pulls in the new prompt and tool definitions – there’s no need to restart anything. Alice initiates a test query to her agent; it responds using the updated prompt format and can even call the new API tool as needed, all in real-time. This kind of live reconfiguration makes it incredibly easy for Alice to iterate on her AI agent’s capabilities. In traditional setups, such changes might require editing config files on multiple servers or restarting processes, disrupting the workflow. With Pulsar’s event-driven config, TrustGraph achieves seamless, centralized control.",[48,1245,1246,1247,1249],{},"Before wrapping up, Alice reviews the system’s performance. Using TrustGraph’s observability stack, she notices the message backlog on the ",[1142,1248,1144],{}," ingestion topic grew slightly during peak load, but then drained as additional consumers auto-scaled. The Grafana metrics (sourced from Pulsar) show healthy throughput. One insight stands out: the response queue for the Agent service shows occasional latency spikes. Investigating further, Alice realizes that complex user questions trigger multiple knowledge searches, slowing responses. She decides to allocate another instance of the GraphRAG service to that Flow to handle these heavy queries. Thanks to Pulsar, scaling out is straightforward – the new instance will simply become another consumer on the relevant topics. Sure enough, once deployed, the next test query is handled faster, as the load is now balanced. The bottleneck was resolved by a one-line configuration change to scale the service, without any code changes or downtime. This agility in tuning performance is a direct consequence of the Pulsar-based design.",[48,1251,1252],{},"By the end of the day, Alice has not only built a functioning AI research assistant, but she’s also iterated on it multiple times – all without struggling with messaging middleware. TrustGraph, empowered by Pulsar, took care of the heavy lifting: routing messages, preserving data, triggering reconfigurations, and scaling services on demand. For Alice, the developer experience is night-and-day compared to earlier projects. She can focus on crafting AI logic, confident that the event-driven backbone (powered by Pulsar and StreamNative’s expertise) will handle the rest.",[40,1254,1256],{"id":1255},"conclusion-pulsar-as-the-foundation-for-event-driven-ai","Conclusion: Pulsar as the Foundation for Event-Driven AI",[48,1258,1259],{},"The story of TrustGraph underscores a broader lesson for AI platform developers: a robust messaging backbone is the key to unlocking scalable, modular, event-driven systems. Apache Pulsar proved to be that backbone for TrustGraph – acting as the central nervous system that links independent AI modules into one intelligent whole. Its pub\u002Fsub model, dynamic queue management, multi-tenancy, and mix of persistent vs. transient messaging enabled TrustGraph to achieve a level of flexibility and resilience that would be hard to realize otherwise. By using Pulsar, the TrustGraph team and its users gained scalability, fault tolerance, and speed of iteration as first-class features of the architecture. Developers can add new capabilities without fear of breaking the system, ops engineers can sleep easier knowing spikes or failures won’t collapse the pipeline, and organizations can deploy multiple AI agent flows concurrently with confidence in their isolation and security.",[48,1261,1262],{},"In essence, Pulsar (with StreamNative’s enterprise support in the wings) serves as the foundation for TrustGraph’s vision of an AI platform. It demonstrates how an advanced event streaming technology can solve the pain points of building AI products: eliminating brittle point-to-point links, preventing data loss, simplifying scaling, and improving observability. For any team looking to build the next generation of AI systems – be it autonomous agents, real-time analytics, or context-driven LLM applications – the combination of TrustGraph’s modular framework and Pulsar’s event-driven backbone offers a compelling blueprint. Pulsar enabled TrustGraph to transform from an ambitious idea into a production-grade reality, reinforcing its role as a foundational enabler for event-driven AI platforms. The result is a story of technology empowering developers: with Apache Pulsar under the hood, TrustGraph can truly deliver on its promise of creating intelligent, context-aware AI agents at scale.",{"title":18,"searchDepth":19,"depth":19,"links":1264},[1265,1266,1267,1268,1269,1270],{"id":1096,"depth":19,"text":1097},{"id":1103,"depth":19,"text":1104},{"id":1127,"depth":19,"text":1128},{"id":1181,"depth":19,"text":1182},{"id":1208,"depth":19,"text":1209},{"id":1255,"depth":19,"text":1256},"Apache Pulsar","2025-09-19","Discover how TrustGraph built its open-source AI platform on Apache Pulsar, using event-driven architecture to connect microservices, scale dynamic AI workflows, and ensure resilience. 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