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Join the waitlist and get $1,000 in credits.","2026-04-01",true,"md","\u002Fnative-kafka-service-waitlist",null,"Join Waitlist",{"body":13},{"type":14,"value":15,"toc":16},"minimark",[],{"title":17,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":19},"",2,[],"banners\u002Fkafka-company-2025","default","IMIJszQOOWTfA_DV33eYUA5jqV7DrX1FWbBTBZfNvWc",{"id":24,"title":25,"authors":26,"body":28,"category":288,"createdAt":10,"date":289,"description":290,"extension":8,"featured":7,"image":291,"isDraft":292,"link":10,"meta":293,"navigation":7,"order":294,"path":295,"readingTime":296,"relatedResources":10,"seo":297,"stem":298,"tags":299,"__hash__":303},"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",[27],"David Kjerrumgaard",{"type":14,"value":29,"toc":275},[30,38,46,50,66,72,77,80,86,101,108,114,117,123,126,133,139,142,145,156,162,168,171,174,177,183,190,193,196,203,206,209,223,228,232,236,240,244,248,250,267,269],[31,32,34],"h3",{"id":33},"receives-highest-possible-scores-in-both-the-messaging-and-resource-optimization-criteria",[35,36,37],"em",{},"Receives Highest Possible Scores in BOTH the Messaging and Resource Optimization Criteria",[39,40,42],"h2",{"id":41},"introduction",[43,44,45],"strong",{},"Introduction",[47,48,49],"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.",[47,51,52,53,62,63],{},"Today, we're excited to announce that Forrester Research has named StreamNative as a Contender in its evaluation, ",[54,55,57],"a",{"href":56},"\u002Freports\u002Frecognized-in-the-forrester-wave-tm-streaming-data-platforms-q4-2025",[35,58,59],{},[43,60,61],{},"The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025",". This report evaluated 15 top streaming data platform providers, and we're proud to share that ",[43,64,65],{},"StreamNative received the highest scores possible—5 out of 5—in both the Messaging and Resource Optimization criteria.",[47,67,68,69],{},"***Forrester's Take: ***",[35,70,71],{},"\"StreamNative is a good fit for enterprises that want an Apache Pulsar implementation that is also compatible with Kafka APIs.\"",[47,73,74],{},[35,75,76],{},"— The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025",[47,78,79],{},"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.",[39,81,83],{"id":82},"trusted-by-industry-leaders",[43,84,85],{},"Trusted by Industry Leaders",[47,87,88,89,92,93,96,97,100],{},"Companies across industries are already leveraging StreamNative to drive real-time outcomes. Global enterprises like ",[43,90,91],{},"Cisco"," rely on StreamNative to handle massive IoT telemetry, supporting 245 million+ connected devices. Martech leaders such as ",[43,94,95],{},"Iterable"," process billions of events per day with StreamNative for hyper-personalized customer engagement. And in financial services, ",[43,98,99],{},"FICO"," trusts StreamNative to power its real-time fraud detection and analytics pipelines with a secure, scalable streaming backbone.",[47,102,103,104,107],{},"The Forrester report notes that, “",[35,105,106],{},"Customers appreciate the lower infrastructure costs that result from StreamNative’s cost-efficient, Kafka-compatible architecture. Customers note excellent support responsiveness…","”",[39,109,111],{"id":110},"modern-cloud-native-architecture-built-for-scale",[43,112,113],{},"Modern, Cloud-Native Architecture Built for Scale",[47,115,116],{},"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.",[47,118,119,120,107],{},"Forrester's evaluation described that “",[35,121,122],{},"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.",[47,124,125],{},"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.",[47,127,128,129,132],{},"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 ",[35,130,131],{},"\"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.",[39,134,136],{"id":135},"open-source-foundation-and-pulsar-expertise",[43,137,138],{},"Open Source Foundation and Pulsar Expertise",[47,140,141],{},"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.",[47,143,144],{},"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.",[47,146,147,148,151,152,155],{},"Forrester's assessment noted that StreamNative’s “",[35,149,150],{},"events-driven agents, extensibility, and performance architecture are solid,","” and we're continuing to build on that foundation. ",[43,153,154],{},"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.",[47,157,158,159],{},"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 ",[35,160,161],{},"\"investments in Pulsar’s open-source ecosystem and performance optimization make it the primary platform for enterprises wishing to implement Pulsar.\"",[39,163,165],{"id":164},"powering-real-time-use-cases-across-industries",[43,166,167],{},"Powering Real-Time Use Cases Across Industries",[47,169,170],{},"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.",[47,172,173],{},"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.",[47,175,176],{},"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.",[39,178,180],{"id":179},"continuing-to-innovate-ursa-orca-and-the-road-ahead",[43,181,182],{},"Continuing to Innovate: Ursa, Orca, and the Road Ahead",[47,184,185,186,189],{},"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 ",[43,187,188],{},"provide a unified platform that not only handles today's streaming needs but also anticipates the emerging requirements of tomorrow",".",[47,191,192],{},"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.",[47,194,195],{},"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.",[47,197,198,199,202],{},"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. ",[43,200,201],{},"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.",[47,204,205],{},"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. 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But the real pressure point isn’t just compute—it’s data acquisition and ingestion costs.",[47,318,319],{},"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.",[47,321,322],{},"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.",[47,324,325],{},"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.",[47,327,328],{},"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.",[39,330,332],{"id":331},"key-benchmark-findings","Key Benchmark Findings",[47,334,335],{},"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.",[47,380,381],{},"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.",[47,383,384],{},"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:",[337,386,387,390],{},[340,388,389],{},"Eliminating inter-zone traffic costs via a leaderless architecture.",[340,391,392],{},"Replacing costly inter-zone replication with direct writes to cloud storage using open lakehouse formats.",[39,394,396],{"id":395},"how-ursa-eliminates-inter-zone-traffic","How Ursa Eliminates Inter-Zone Traffic",[47,398,399],{},"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.",[47,401,402],{},[349,403],{"alt":17,"src":404},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602e21b3571bb7117dca_AD_4nXd7Oahc77NjRLNvA9clLt0tsyU6MrIqVibFYv5pW5giTIcCHPr3EA_yTGzfVEUIVO3VXK56qWK8zmBCp5lY0E_4nmlWIPFrHjtHylA5NhwELjn-UB0fLG2h_kbrxrc7Cs_edvveNA.png",[31,406,408],{"id":407},"leaderless-architecture","Leaderless architecture",[47,410,411],{},"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.",[47,413,414],{},"Pros of Leader-Based Architectures:\n✔ Maintains message ordering via local sequence IDs\n✔ Delivers low latency and high performance through message caching",[47,416,417],{},"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",[47,419,420],{},"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.",[47,422,423,424,429],{},"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 ",[54,425,428],{"href":426,"rel":427},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fstreamnative\u002Foxia",[263],"Oxia",", a scalable metadata and index service created by StreamNative in 2022.",[31,431,433],{"id":432},"oxia-the-metadata-layer-enabling-leaderless-architecture","Oxia: The Metadata Layer Enabling Leaderless Architecture",[47,435,436],{},"Ensuring message ordering in a leaderless architecture is complex, but Ursa solves this with Oxia:",[337,438,439,442,445],{},[340,440,441],{},"Handles millions of metadata\u002Findex operations per second",[340,443,444],{},"Generates sequential IDs to maintain strict message ordering",[340,446,447],{},"Optimized for Kubernetes with horizontal scalability",[47,449,450],{},"Producers and consumers can connect to any broker within their local AZ, eliminating inter-zone traffic costs while maintaining performance through localized caching.",[31,452,454],{"id":453},"zero-interzone-data-replication","Zero interzone data replication",[47,456,457],{},"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.",[47,459,460],{},"Ursa avoids these costs by writing data directly to cloud storage (e.g., AWS S3, Google GCS):",[337,462,463,466,469],{},[340,464,465],{},"Built-In Resilience: Cloud storage inherently offers high availability and fault tolerance without inter-zone traffic fees.",[340,467,468],{},"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).",[340,470,471],{},"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.",[47,473,474],{},"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.",[39,476,478],{"id":477},"how-we-ran-a-5-gbs-test-with-ursa","How We Ran a 5 GB\u002Fs Test with Ursa",[31,480,482],{"id":481},"ursa-cluster-deployment","Ursa Cluster Deployment",[337,484,485,488],{},[340,486,487],{},"9 brokers across 3 availability zones, each on m6i.8xlarge (Fixed 12.5 Gbps bandwidth, 32 vCPU cores, 128 GB memory).",[340,489,490],{},"Oxia cluster (metadata store) with 3 nodes of m6i.8xlarge, distributed across three availability zones (AZs).",[47,492,493],{},"During peak throughput (5 GB\u002Fs), each broker’s network usage was about 10 Gbps.",[31,495,497],{"id":496},"openmessaging-benchmark-workers-configuration","OpenMessaging Benchmark Workers & Configuration",[47,499,500,501,505],{},"The OpenMessaging Benchmark(OMB) Framework is a suite of tools that make it easy to benchmark distributed messaging systems in the cloud. Please check ",[54,502,503],{"href":503,"rel":504},"https:\u002F\u002Fopenmessaging.cloud\u002Fdocs\u002Fbenchmarks\u002F",[263]," for details.",[337,507,508,523,532],{},[340,509,510,511,516,517,522],{},"12 OMB workers: 6 for ",[54,512,515],{"href":513,"rel":514},"https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fcodelipenghui\u002Fd1094122270775e4f1580947f80c5055",[263],"producers",", 6 for ",[54,518,521],{"href":519,"rel":520},"https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fcodelipenghui\u002F06bada89381fb77a7862e1b4c1d8963d",[263],"consumers"," across 3 availability zones, on m6i.8xlarge instances. Each worker is configured with 12 CPU cores and 48 GB memory.",[340,524,525,526,531],{},"Sample YAML ",[54,527,530],{"href":528,"rel":529},"https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fcodelipenghui\u002F204c1f26c4d44a218ae235bf2de99904",[263],"scripts"," provided for Kafka-compatible configuration and rate limits.",[340,533,534],{},"Achieved consistent 5 GB\u002Fs publish\u002Fsubscribe throughput.",[39,536,538],{"id":537},"ursa-benchmark-tests-results","Ursa Benchmark Tests & Results",[47,540,541],{},"The following diagram demonstrates that Ursa can consistently handle 5 GB\u002Fs of traffic, fully saturating the network across all broker nodes.",[47,543,544],{},[349,545],{"alt":17,"src":546},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602d7b261bac1113f7d6_AD_4nXdDPsRc3koXICiFF0bqSmGWbJt_RlUy4FE3ruuWOfbCfpcqZ1dejjqGbkaCJv2hQFL1nirRouBVRW2l5uMWBvY9naMqGB_wHcLI14dBM0f85TXhmdm3UxEv1yGX9Y4hf5FttSkZew.png",[39,548,550],{"id":549},"comparing-infrastructure-cost","Comparing Infrastructure Cost",[47,552,553],{},"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.",[31,555,557],{"id":556},"test-setup-key-assumptions","Test Setup & Key Assumptions",[47,559,560],{},"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.",[47,562,563],{},"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:",[337,565,566],{},[340,567,568],{},"9 × m6i.8xlarge instances",[47,570,571,572,577],{},"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",[54,573,576],{"href":574,"rel":575},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.aws.amazon.com\u002Fmsk\u002Flatest\u002Fdeveloperguide\u002Fmsk-provision-throughput-management.html#throughput-bottlenecks",[263]," AWS documentation",". Given this constraint, achieving 5 GB\u002Fs throughput with a replication factor of 3 required the following setup:",[337,579,580],{},[340,581,582],{},"15 × kafka.m7g.8xlarge (32 vCPUs, 128 GB memory, 15 Gbps network, 4000 GiB EBS).",[47,584,585],{},"This configuration was necessary to work around MSK's storage bandwidth limitations, ensuring a comparable cost basis to other evaluated streaming engines.",[47,587,588],{},"Additional key assumptions include:",[337,590,591,594,597],{},[340,592,593],{},"Inter-AZ producer traffic: For leader-based engines, two-thirds of producer-to-broker traffic crosses AZs due to leader distribution.",[340,595,596],{},"Consumer optimizations: Follower fetch is enabled across all tests, eliminating inter-AZ consumer traffic.",[340,598,599],{},"Storage cost exclusions: This benchmark only evaluates streaming costs, assuming no long-term data retention.",[31,601,603],{"id":602},"inter-broker-replication-costs","Inter-Broker Replication Costs",[47,605,606],{},"Inter-broker (cross-AZ) replication is a major cost driver for data streaming engines:",[337,608,609,612,615],{},[340,610,611],{},"RedPanda: Inter-broker replication is not free, leading to substantial costs when data must be copied across multiple availability zones.",[340,613,614],{},"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.",[340,616,617],{},"Ursa: No inter-broker replication costs due to its leaderless architecture, eliminating inter-zone replication costs entirely.",[31,619,621],{"id":620},"zone-affinity-reducing-inter-az-costs","Zone Affinity: Reducing Inter-AZ Costs",[47,623,624],{},"We evaluated zone affinity mechanisms to further reduce inter-AZ data transfer costs.",[47,626,627],{},"Consumers:",[337,629,630],{},[340,631,632],{},"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",[47,634,635],{},"Producers:",[337,637,638,647,656],{},[340,639,640,641,646],{},"Kafka protocol lacks an easy way to enforce producer AZ affinity (though ",[54,642,645],{"href":643,"rel":644},"https:\u002F\u002Fcwiki.apache.org\u002Fconfluence\u002Fdisplay\u002FKAFKA\u002FKIP-1123:+Rack-aware+partitioning+for+Kafka+Producer",[263],"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).",[340,648,649,650,655],{},"Redpanda recently introduced ",[54,651,654],{"href":652,"rel":653},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.redpanda.com\u002Fredpanda-cloud\u002Fdevelop\u002Fproduce-data\u002Fleader-pinning\u002F",[263],"leader pinning",", but this only benefits setups where producers are confined to a single AZ—not applicable to our multi-AZ benchmark.",[340,657,658,659,664],{},"Ursa is the only system in this test with ",[54,660,663],{"href":661,"rel":662},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.streamnative.io\u002Fdocs\u002Fconfig-kafka-client#eliminate-cross-az-networking-traffic",[263],"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.",[31,666,668],{"id":667},"cost-comparison-results","Cost Comparison Results",[47,670,335],{},[337,672,673,675],{},[340,674,342],{},[340,676,345],{},[47,678,679],{},"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.",[47,681,682],{},[349,683],{"alt":17,"src":684},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c72208198ca36a352f228_AD_4nXeeZuM8T-xBlD4Vf3j67K618n08qh8wIDLLtiLJG0ssA1Wj1V26u7wIDTX9sqLrtw8mB2c299dwzarGen62CG0Vh7nWstn5qbPGFcBaKJYEepTsLr5fHWv1U8uqbg8Y0UOK6fJ7.png",[47,686,687],{},[349,688],{"alt":17,"src":689},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c625978031f40229de484_AD_4nXdLkLLJ30KKr-_A_rN1j8akVwBYacAWIPzWHoOReJF421890kfByZoQQxkLczihVSmiw5Q9J51-V9I2SEKITbwsYnANDDTlAVL5nQ_jfaHNTe9VEWhSoa7DZooCnilDYL6l6msmJg.png",[47,691,692],{},"The detailed infrastructure cost calculations for each data streaming engine are listed below:",[31,694,696],{"id":695},"streamnative-ursa","StreamNative - Ursa",[337,698,699,702,705,708],{},[340,700,701],{},"Server EC2 costs: 9 * $1.536\u002Fhr = $14",[340,703,704],{},"Client EC2 costs: 9 * $1.536\u002Fhr =$14",[340,706,707],{},"S3 write requests costs: 1350 r\u002Fs * $0.005\u002F1000r * 3600s = $24",[340,709,710],{},"S3 read requests costs: 1350 r\u002Fs * $0.0004\u002F1000r * 3600s = $2",[31,712,714],{"id":713},"aws-msk","AWS MSK",[337,716,717,720,723],{},[340,718,719],{},"Server EC2 costs: 15 * $3.264\u002Fhr = $49",[340,721,722],{},"Client side EC2 costs: 9 * $1.536\u002Fhr =$14",[340,724,725],{},"Interzone traffic - producer to broker: 5GB\u002Fs * ⅔ * $0.02\u002FG(in+out) * 3600 = $240",[31,727,729],{"id":728},"redpanda","RedPanda",[337,731,732,734,736,739,742],{},[340,733,701],{},[340,735,704],{},[340,737,738],{},"Interzone traffic - producer to broker: 5GB\u002Fs * ⅔ * $0.02\u002FGB(in+out) * 3600 = $240",[340,740,741],{},"Interzone traffic - replication: 10GB\u002Fs * $0.02\u002FGB(in+out) * 3600 = $720",[340,743,744],{},"Interzone traffic - broker to consumer: $0 (fetch from local zone)",[47,746,747,748,753],{},"Please note that we were unable to test ",[54,749,752],{"href":750,"rel":751},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.redpanda.com\u002Fblog\u002Fcloud-topics-streaming-data-object-storage",[263],"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.",[337,755,756,762],{},[340,757,758,761],{},[54,759,645],{"href":643,"rel":760},[263]," (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).",[340,763,764],{},"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.",[47,766,767],{},"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.",[47,769,770],{},"We may revisit this comparison as more details become available.",[39,772,774],{"id":773},"comparing-total-cost-of-ownership","Comparing Total Cost of Ownership",[47,776,777],{},"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.",[47,779,780],{},"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:",[337,782,783,786,789],{},[340,784,785],{},"Ursa ($164,353\u002Fmonth) is: 50% cheaper than Confluent WarpStream ($337,068\u002Fmonth)",[340,787,788],{},"85% cheaper than AWS MSK ($1,115,251\u002Fmonth)",[340,790,791],{},"86% cheaper than Redpanda ($1,202,853\u002Fmonth)",[47,793,794],{},"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.",[47,796,797],{},"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.",[47,799,800],{},"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.",[47,802,803],{},[349,804],{"alt":17,"src":805},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602d194800c9206d9d58_AD_4nXcFlf755xgyz7htxhMhBV5fGrsxy642mQNodt61DTok_z1dwkw5A6lkO5hatXVneCaB0anbZPAyvLI3MlIMuQEYLEACHHvQMOr5UfaB37dfzkdqewDEvcT-20VGd_zzvJsuA00zGA.png",[47,807,808],{},[349,809],{"alt":17,"src":810},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c62594e9c2e629fae73aa_AD_4nXeU6cOgItnjLsEZCOf13TEvMY_SHWWIxYP2OYUj-B1GUPyWO78OG08K_v03hwYSVcg06f9dqDiGmdwy76vynjmiDGL5bluZ5_XF4nSU_r59oOZdfViXndXt6s11vVOY7qwfZN8v.png",[31,812,814],{"id":813},"cost-breakdown","Cost Breakdown",[816,817,818],"h4",{"id":695},"StreamNative – Ursa",[337,820,821,824,827,830,833],{},[340,822,823],{},"EC2 (Server): 9 × $1.536\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $9,953.28",[340,825,826],{},"S3 Write Requests: 1,350 r\u002Fs × $0.005\u002F1,000 r × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $17,496",[340,828,829],{},"S3 Read Requests: 1,350 r\u002Fs × $0.0004\u002F1,000 r × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $1,400",[340,831,832],{},"S3 Storage Costs: 5 GB\u002Fs × $0.021\u002FGB × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 7 days = $63,504",[340,834,835],{},"Vendor Cost: 200 ETU × $0.50\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $72,000",[816,837,839],{"id":838},"warpstream","WarpStream",[337,841,842,845],{},[340,843,844],{},"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.",[340,846,847,848,853],{},"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 “",[54,849,852],{"href":850,"rel":851},"https:\u002F\u002Fbigdata.2minutestreaming.com\u002Fp\u002Fthe-brutal-truth-about-apache-kafka-cost-calculators",[263],"The Brutal Truth About Kafka Cost Calculators","”. To ensure transparency, we have documented the pricing as of January 29, 2025.",[47,855,856],{},[349,857],{"alt":17,"src":858},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602e42713e0028e9af5e_AD_4nXcu5_VWTLu9jRYs6zX1MBAOtLQEo5gyfNSWPcbpnQHXTa8qNCFAXezRR2E8daygzYTTwd4dhJjaLaLM8C6y_3OGbu2NS7pdvEv3a8-ptNKOg7AeKnYqPQCAYvQ5EuxzuI3JYIvY.png",[816,860,862],{"id":861},"msk","MSK",[337,864,865,868,871],{},[340,866,867],{},"EC2 (Server): 15 * $3.264\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $35,251",[340,869,870],{},"Interzone Traffic (Client-Server): 5 GB\u002Fs × ⅔ × $0.02\u002FGB (in+out) × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $172,800",[340,872,873],{},"Storage: 5 GB\u002Fs × $0.1\u002FGB-month × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 7 days * 3 replicas = $907,200",[816,875,729],{"id":876},"redpanda-1",[337,878,879,882,884,887,890],{},[340,880,881],{},"EC2 (Server): 9 × $1.536\u002Fhr × 24 hr × 30 days = $9953",[340,883,870],{},[340,885,886],{},"Interzone Traffic (Replication): 5 GB\u002Fs × 2 × $0.02\u002FGB (in+out) × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 30 days = $518,400",[340,888,889],{},"Storage: 5 GB\u002Fs × $0.045\u002FGB-month(st1) × 3,600 s × 24 hr × 7 days * 3 replicas = $408,240",[340,891,892],{},"Vendor Cost: $93,333 per month (based on limited information. See additional notes below).",[816,894,896],{"id":895},"additional-notes","Additional Notes",[337,898,899],{},[340,900,901,902,907],{},"Redpanda does not publicly disclose its BYOC pricing, making it difficult to accurately assess its total costs. We refer to information from the whitepaper “",[54,903,906],{"href":904,"rel":905},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.redpanda.com\u002Fresources\u002Fredpanda-vs-confluent-performance-tco-benchmark-report#form",[263],"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.",[47,909,910],{},[349,911],{"alt":17,"src":912},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602dc8a9859eed89a0ef_AD_4nXdbcO8vsNNPy4GtkNLlmNKf22fjxRvzLzH7CtOna1L08sTbvnZx3HhufeFqc1w4K2gEF7lxO2IR5supotxebAiGnA07Qa8Yr3Rd1pVK2LYKK4WurlJGwgdwwucZIFoF-N_2oBjY.png",[47,914,915],{},[349,916],{"alt":17,"src":917},"\u002Fimgs\u002Fblogs\u002F679c602d6bc1c2287e012540_AD_4nXfcHZnLfjbjIr3ZAgoQXT9dwP3aQCOQPmGZZJUtpNZSwE6qY6M3yehIaBxCwxEIeu5PVdUPY0zhyjnow26YfgjdYgSG4GnV9ibxu0YWTIpwng6z_F6FUGJMpERMKtpsFESzXSN_Sw.png",[337,919,920,923],{},[340,921,922],{},"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.",[340,924,925],{},"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.",[39,927,929],{"id":928},"conclusion","Conclusion",[47,931,932],{},"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.",[31,934,936],{"id":935},"balancing-latency-and-cost","Balancing Latency and Cost",[47,938,939,943],{},[54,940,942],{"href":941},"\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.",[31,945,947],{"id":946},"the-future-of-streaming-infrastructure","The Future of Streaming Infrastructure",[47,949,950],{},"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.",[47,952,953,954,959],{},"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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On the back of its messaging team, vivo seeks to build a strong message system featuring high throughput and low latency to support its real-time computing business, including data integration and message queueing services.",[47,1118,1119],{},"vivo’s existing business service layer consists of three parts - data integration, message middleware, and data processing. Currently, the team is using both Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar as messaging solutions, with the latter handling over 100 billion messages per day.",[47,1121,1122],{},[349,1123],{"alt":1124,"src":1125},"illustration service layer","\u002Fimgs\u002Fsuccess-stories\u002F63a4881ad9756e32f52f9b98_vivo-service-layer.png",[39,1127,1129],{"id":1128},"challenges","Challenges",[47,1131,1132],{},"Over the past few years, vivo has used Kafka clusters to serve different business modules. As its business expands, the traffic that the Kafka clusters need to handle has grown exponentially. This results in the following challenges.",[337,1134,1135,1138,1141,1144,1147],{},[340,1136,1137],{},"Decreased performance. As existing clusters grow with more partitions on disks, sequential I\u002FO turns to random I\u002FO, affecting Kafka’s performance in reads and writes.",[340,1139,1140],{},"Low resource utilization. The existing clusters serving the old business need to be split when they expand. However, the business itself cannot be dynamically scaled. As a result, some machines may not have their resources fully utilized or they cannot be allocated timely to serve new traffic.",[340,1142,1143],{},"Scaling difficulty. When scaling a Kafka cluster, the team must migrate and rebalance traffic before they can put a new machine up and running in the cluster, which is extremely time-consuming. This might cause problems during traffic bursts.",[340,1145,1146],{},"Increased metadata size. To increase the number of consumers, the team has to add more partitions, which means more metadata needs to be stored.",[340,1148,1149],{},"Hardware failures. With various clusters containing a large number of machines, the team needs to deal with different disk issues, which account for two thirds of their total failures. This could directly affect the performance of clients.",[47,1151,1152],{},"“When you have so many clusters with massive traffic flows coming from a variety of business scenarios, you have to take into account a lot of things, such as cluster stability and overhead,” said Limin Quan, Big Data Engineer at vivo. “We need a more comprehensive message solution with better scalability that can be applied to more use cases.”",[39,1154,1156],{"id":1155},"what-apache-pulsar-has-to-offer-for-vivo","What Apache Pulsar has to offer for vivo",[47,1158,1159],{},"In 2022, the team began to learn Pulsar and tried to figure out how they could leverage Pulsar to solve the above-mentioned problems, especially through the following features.",[31,1161,1163],{"id":1162},"scalability","Scalability",[47,1165,1166],{},"Different from Kafka, Pulsar separates computing from storage. “Apache Pulsar boasts a unique two-layer architecture. The benefit of the design is that we can scale nodes separately at either layer without impacting the other one,” Quan said. “At the computing layer, stateless brokers are equivalent to each other, which makes it possible for rapid scaling. As for storage, there is no leader or follower. All the nodes, namely bookies, are the same.”",[47,1168,1169],{},[349,1170],{"alt":1171,"src":1172},"illustration scalability broker","\u002Fimgs\u002Fsuccess-stories\u002F63a4881b68186cf4d48fa45c_apache-pulsar-structure-details.png",[31,1174,1176],{"id":1175},"fault-tolerance","Fault tolerance",[47,1178,1179],{},"Both brokers and bookies are lightweight nodes. Once a node goes down, the Pulsar cluster can quickly scale by adding or removing the node.",[47,1181,1182],{},"“The broker layer provides fault tolerance for bookies,” said Quan. “When a bookie goes down, Pulsar has this smooth fault tolerance mechanism that makes sure any node failure does not affect upstream business. Your client does not even need to know that. This could be extremely helpful to us as two thirds of our problems are related to disks.”",[31,1184,1186],{"id":1185},"load-balancing","Load balancing",[47,1188,1189],{},"Pulsar frees users from spending hours migrating data when scaling a cluster as it features an automatic load balancing mechanism. Pulsar uses an abstraction called “bundles”. Topics are assigned to a specific bundle, which comprises a portion of the overall hash range of the namespace that has the topics. Each bundle is independent and is assigned to a broker. This ensures topics within a namespace are evenly distributed across brokers.",[47,1191,1192],{},[349,1193],{"alt":1194,"src":1195},"illustration load balancingu","\u002Fimgs\u002Fsuccess-stories\u002F63a4881b88acd06c7308eec6_bundle-topic-hash.png",[47,1197,1198],{},"“At the storage layer, data are also distributed evenly. As we scale our cluster, messages can be written to bookies that have more available storage space,” said Quan. “In this way, traffic can be balanced in real time without manually migrating the data. This greatly improves our ability to cope with emergencies during traffic peak hours.”",[47,1200,1201],{},"“In bookies, data are flushed to disks asynchronously. During the process, messages are sorted first so that they can be read sequentially later,” Quan added. “In terms of sequentiality, Pulsar is an ideal solution to handling large clusters and emergencies during traffic bursts.”",[47,1203,1204],{},"In addition to the above features, the team also looked at other capabilities of Pulsar, such as tiered storage, traffic management and control, multi-tenancy, geo-replication, and containerized deployment. “With a comprehensive picture of Pulsar in mind, we know that it might be the answer to our problems,” Quan said.",[39,1206,1208],{"id":1207},"pulsar-in-practice-bundle-and-data-management","Pulsar in practice: Bundle and data management",[47,1210,1211],{},"As the team worked to put Pulsar into use, they faced some challenges at the beginning in managing bundles and ledger data. However, they gradually worked out solutions and offered some insights based on their practices.",[31,1213,1215],{"id":1214},"bundle-management","Bundle management",[47,1217,1218],{},"To control traffic in a cluster, Pulsar provides users with bundles to help establish the connection between topics and brokers. Initially, traffic might be spread as evenly as possible across brokers, while this could change over time. Besides, how to set the number of bundles might also be tricky for cluster maintainers. For these possible challenges, Quan proposed the following suggestions and tips.",[47,1220,1221],{},[349,1222],{"alt":1223,"src":1224},"illustration bundle management","\u002Fimgs\u002Fsuccess-stories\u002F63a4881b29d37cf2495a1978_topic-bundle-broker-assignment.png",[337,1226,1227,1230,1238],{},[340,1228,1229],{},"Make a careful decision on the number of bundles. How many bundles exist in a cluster has a direct bearing on load balancing. Topics are assigned to a specific bundle according to the hash of the topic name. This means that topics may not be evenly distributed to bundles. “At vivo, we configure bundles based on the number of brokers corresponding to the namespace, and set a range to limit the number of bundles that are too large or small,” Quan said. “For example, we configure bundles with the number of brokers multiplied by 20, and limit them between 200 and 500.”",[340,1231,1232,1233,189],{},"Split bundles when necessary. Pulsar has a bundle split mechanism. In cases where a broker hosting several topics has heavy traffic while others are underutilized, bundles can be split by the broker. In this way, new smaller bundles can be reassigned to different brokers. The behavior can be customized by configuring defaultNamespaceBundleSplitAlgorithm in broker.conf. For more information, see ",[54,1234,1237],{"href":1235,"rel":1236},"https:\u002F\u002Fpulsar.apache.org\u002Fdocs\u002Fadministration-load-balance\u002F#split-namespace-bundles",[263],"Split namespace bundles",[340,1239,1240],{},"Unload bundles instead of the entire namespace. Pulsar allows users to unbind bundles from the broker and reassign these bundles, usually to nodes with lower loads. However, this is not recommended for namespaces. “If you unload a namespace, all the producers and consumers of all the bundles in the namespace will be disconnected. Hence, we should avoid unloading namespaces, especially during traffic peak hours.”",[47,1242,1243],{},"“Bundles are closely related to how traffic is distributed. Any operation on bundles may lead to traffic migration, which directly impacts your clients. If you have enormous bundles, you have to be extremely careful when unloading them.” Quan said. “I would suggest cluster maintainers run some tests on bundles first and then decide the number of bundles they need at the very beginning. Ideally, they should have a plan and take all factors into consideration, like the metadata of bundles, which are stored in ZooKeeper.”",[31,1245,1247],{"id":1246},"data-management","Data management",[816,1249,1251],{"id":1250},"ledger-rollovers","Ledger rollovers",[47,1253,1254],{},"In Pulsar, users can configure related parameters in the broker.conf file to control ledger rollover behaviors. When a rollover happens, a ledger is closed with a new ledger created to store data. A ledger rollover is triggered after the minimum rollover time (managedLedgerMinLedgerRolloverTimeMinutes) is reached and one of the following conditions is met.",[337,1256,1257,1260,1263],{},[340,1258,1259],{},"The maximum rollover time has been reached (managedLedgerMaxLedgerRolloverTimeMinutes).",[340,1261,1262],{},"The number of entries written to the ledger has reached the maximum value (managedLedgerMaxEntriesPerLedger)",[340,1264,1265],{},"The entries written to the ledger have reached the maximum size value (managedLedgerMaxSizePerLedgerMbytes).",[47,1267,1268],{},"“I believe the reason for setting a threshold of the minimum rollover time is to prevent a ledger from being closed too fast,” Quan said. “The metadata of ledgers is stored in ZooKeeper. That means if we have too many ledgers, the metadata size will be extremely large. However, this might cause problems if we don’t have these parameters configured correctly.”",[47,1270,1271],{},"“During peak hours, you may have some topics serving massive traffic flows. In this case, the entries written to a ledger might already have exceeded the allowed maximum size before the minimum rollover time threshold is reached. This results in the ledger being unnecessarily large,” Quan talked about the potential problem in a ledger rollover. “When this large ledger is written to bookies, the data cannot be distributed evenly on the disk. Besides, some operations on the ledger may be affected, like data offloading.”",[47,1273,1274],{},"“In reality, we should carefully configure the parameters related to ledger rollovers based on business needs. To avoid excessively large ledgers, we can try to increase the number of topic partitions and reduce the traffic in a single partition,” Quan explained.",[816,1276,1278],{"id":1277},"data-expiry","Data expiry",[47,1280,1281],{},"Pulsar uses retention policies and TTL (Time to live) to control message expiry behaviors. Retention policies are used to keep messages for a period of time before deletion, while TTL defines the amount of time a message is allowed to remain unacknowledged. When the TTL value is reached for a message, Pulsar automatically marks the message acknowledged. Specifically, messages go through the following steps before they are deleted.",[1283,1284,1285,1288,1291,1294,1297,1300],"ol",{},[340,1286,1287],{},"Unacknowledged messages remain in a backlog. These messages will not be deleted.",[340,1289,1290],{},"Messages are acknowledged. They can be acknowledged and thus removed from the backlog in either of the following ways.",[340,1292,1293],{},"Consumers send back acknowledgments to the broker, which acknowledges them in the subscription.",[340,1295,1296],{},"When the TTL expires, Pulsar automatically marks the messages acknowledged with the cursor moved.",[340,1298,1299],{},"Pulsar checks whether acknowledged messages should be kept based on the retention time and size in the retention policy.",[340,1301,1302],{},"Acknowledged messages that exceed the retention limit on time or size will be deleted.",[47,1304,1305],{},[349,1306],{"alt":1307,"src":1308},"illustration message retention","\u002Fimgs\u002Fsuccess-stories\u002F63a4881bd8fc54bb20642b07_message-retention-expiry-details.png",[47,1310,1311],{},"“TTL and retention policies provide cluster maintainers with great flexibility when they make their data expiry strategies. That said, it may be a little bit complicated for some,” Quan said. “I would suggest cluster maintainers keep it simple and have a unified rule to control how messages are retained. For example, simply making TTL equal to the retention period could be a good idea.”",[816,1313,1315],{"id":1314},"data-deletion","Data deletion",[47,1317,1318],{},"When storing entries, BookKeeper sorts and flushes them to entry log files with index information stored in RocksDB. A single entry log file may contain entries that belong to different ledgers. “When a topic expires or is deleted, all related ledger data need to be deleted,” Quan said. “However, within the same period of time, as different ledger entries are written to the same entry log file, the entry log cannot be simply deleted. BookKeeper will start a GC (GarbageCollector) thread for checking and physical deletion.”",[47,1320,1321],{},[349,1322],{"alt":1323,"src":1324},"illustration data deletion","\u002Fimgs\u002Fsuccess-stories\u002F63a4881b7c9e2c042cafa61e_data-storage-on-bookkeeper.png",[47,1326,1327],{},"The entry log maintains metadata information (EntryLogMetadata), which records the ledger list, size, and remaining valid data ratio. The GC clean-up thread performs the following two steps at each gcWaitTime interval:",[1283,1329,1330,1333],{},[340,1331,1332],{},"Scan the metadata information of the entry log, and delete the entry log that has no valid data.",[340,1334,1335],{},"Determine whether the compaction condition is met. If it is, the GC thread will read each entry to determine whether it has expired. Once it expires, it will be discarded. Otherwise, the data will be written to a new entry log.",[47,1337,1338],{},"Compaction is divided into minorCompaction and majorCompaction. The difference between the two is the threshold. By default, the minorCompaction clean-up interval is 1 hour with a threshold of 0.2; the majorCompaction clean-up interval is 24 hours with a threshold of 0.8. The threshold is the percentage of remaining valid data in the entry log file.",[47,1340,1341],{},"“You need to adjust interval and threshold values for minor and major compactions based on the actual situations, especially when your disk size is small. Otherwise, your data cannot be deleted in time,” Quan said. “To ensure cluster stability when data are being deleted, maintainers should take compaction settings and throttling policies all into account.”",[39,1343,1345],{"id":1344},"building-a-monitoring-architecture-with-pulsar-and-creating-customized-metrics","Building a monitoring architecture with Pulsar and creating customized metrics",[47,1347,1348],{},"The team built its monitoring architecture based on Pulsar metrics. As shown in the image below, Prometheus first obtains these metrics from brokers, bookies, and ZooKeeper, and then sends formatted metrics to Kafka. Apache Druid consumes data from Kafka to provide the data source to create various Grafana dashboards.",[47,1350,1351],{},[349,1352],{"alt":1353,"src":1354},"illustration monitoring architecture","\u002Fimgs\u002Fsuccess-stories\u002F63a4881bd8fc543613642e85_observability-structure-built-on-pulsar-vivo.png",[47,1356,1357],{},"“In Grafana dashboards, we mainly focus on metrics from clients, brokers, and bookies,” said Jianbo Chen, Big Data Engineer at vivo. Specifically, the team is using these three major metrics for different purposes.",[337,1359,1360,1363,1366],{},[340,1361,1362],{},"Client metrics. Check exceptions on the client side.",[340,1364,1365],{},"Broker metrics. Monitor topic traffic so that the team can make necessary adjustments to control traffic across brokers.",[340,1367,1368],{},"Bookies metrics. Troubleshoot potential issues such as high latency in reading and writing.",[47,1370,1371],{},"“For each of them, we have further divided it into different subtypes. On bookies, for example, we have basic metrics like the number of entries and ledgers, and more advanced ones related to journal and queues,” Chen said.",[47,1373,1374],{},"Apart from these default metrics, Chen’s team also created customized metrics. “We have our own bundle metric that tells us how partitions are distributed in bundles. We also want to keep a close eye on latency and traffic on brokers, so we customized metrics related to P95 and P99 latency of reads and writes,” Chen added.",[47,1376,1377],{},"These customized metrics helped the team in making key decisions. “In one of our use cases, we had a topic with 30 partitions and 180 bundles. Based on the results, we could see that the traffic volumes that each node had to serve were quite different over time. Our customized bundle metric showed that some bundles had much more partitions than others,” Chen said. “To solve this problem, we increased the number of partitions to 120. After that, as expected, partitions were distributed more evenly with traffic balanced.”",[39,1379,1381],{"id":1380},"looking-ahead","Looking ahead",[47,1383,1384],{},"As Quan and Chen look back over their team’s journey of using Apache Pulsar, they still think they have a long way to go in the following aspects.",[337,1386,1387,1390,1393,1396],{},[340,1388,1389],{},"End-to-end monitoring. “The existing metrics on the server side are not sufficient for analysis,” Chen said. “We hope we can have a more comprehensive monitoring tool to provide end-to-end observability so that we can quickly locate and troubleshoot issues.”",[340,1391,1392],{},"Integration with other tools. “Pulsar is born for big data users and this offers us more possibilities in terms of data integration,” Chen said. Currently, Chen’s team is working on how they can combine Pulsar with other core components such as Spark and Flink, while necessary tests may still take some time before implementation.",[340,1394,1395],{},"Kafka-on-Pulsar (KoP). KoP brings the native Kafka protocol support to Pulsar by introducing a Kafka protocol handler on Pulsar brokers. By adding the KoP protocol handler to the existing Pulsar cluster, users can easily migrate existing Kafka applications and services to Pulsar without modifying the code. “We still have plenty of Kafka clusters. To migrate our traffic and reduce our costs, we would like to try KoP going forward,” Chen said.",[340,1397,1398],{},"Using Pulsar on Kubernetes. Pulsar represents a first-class citizen in the ecosystem of Kubernetes featuring native integration with containerized environments. 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