SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2022 -- StreamNative, the cloud-native messaging and streaming platform founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar, today announced StreamNative Cloud for Kafka, a managed solution that supports the Kafka protocol but operates Apache Pulsar under the hood.
StreamNative Cloud for Kafka is a turn-key managed solution that overcomes current limitations of existing Kafka clusters. Organizations can use a fully-compliant implementation of the Kafka protocol to alleviate Kafka pain points and to leverage the capabilities of Pulsar, one use case or team at a time.
"Kafka is widely adopted, but organizations face challenges with tens of thousands of granular topics and poor cluster utilization. StreamNative Cloud for Kafka removes current Kafka limitations without requiring application code changes," said Addison Higham, Head of Product at StreamNative.
Apache Pulsar, originally developed by StreamNative founders at Yahoo!, improves on Kafka architecture with built-in multi-tenancy, geo-replication, support for hundreds of thousands of partitions and topics with low latency, and support for worker queues and diverse messaging patterns.
Apache Pulsar ranked as a top 5 Apache Software Foundation project in 2021 regarding engagement and averaged more monthly active contributors than Apache Kafka for most of the past 18 months.
StreamNative Cloud for Kafka is built on open-source Kafka on Pulsar (KoP) technology. Tencent, the largest Internet products and services provider in China, is both an adopter and contributor to the project.
"KoP streamlined our migration process, allowing focus on Pulsar's features instead of Kafka workarounds," said Chao Zhang, Head of MQ & InLong Team at Tencent Big Data.
StreamNative Cloud for Kafka is available via private beta.
