Acknowledged by Forrester among top streaming data platforms in the market
The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025 evaluates the 15 most significant providers in the market today. We’re proud to share that StreamNative has been recognized as a Contender in this report - our first year in the evaluation.
Built on Apache Pulsar and the Ursa Engine — winner of the prestigious Best Industry Paper award at the Very Large Databases (VLDB) Conference 2025 — StreamNative offers a cloud-native, multi-protocol streaming data platform engineered for scale, resilience, and performance. Our platform empowers enterprises to process, route, and store high-volume, real-time data—whether you're modernizing legacy messaging infrastructure or building next-gen AI applications.
Access the Full Report to Learn:
- Why Forrester’s evaluation noted that “StreamNative excels at messaging and resource optimization.”
- How StreamNative’s platform “supports use cases like real-time analytics and event-driven architectures with robust scalability.”
- The key trends shaping the future of streaming data platforms—and why StreamNative placed among top vendors in the market.
Strategy: “StreamNative aims to provide a high-performance, cloud-native multi-protocol streaming data platform… its investments in Pulsar’s open-source ecosystem and performance optimization make it the primary platform for enterprises wishing to implement Pulsar.”
Capabilities: “StreamNative excels at messaging and resource optimization. Its platform supports use cases like real-time analytics and event-driven architectures with robust scalability.”
Customer feedback: “Customers appreciate the lower infrastructure costs that result from StreamNative’s cost-efficient, Kafka-compatible architecture.”
— The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025
StreamNative at a Glance
✅ Built on Apache Pulsar and its Ursa engine, the modern alternative to legacy streaming systems
✅ Unified platform for event streaming, queuing, and long-term storage
✅ Tiered storage, geo-replication, and cloud-native elasticity
✅ Full Kafka protocol support and robust ecosystem integrations
✅ Open source roots, backed by the original creators of Pulsar
✅ Lakehouse-native tables for real-time analytics and AI-ready data
Get your copy of the report and discover why streaming data is the foundation of real-time innovation.
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