Messaging & Event Streaming brand directory

Confluent

Rank #1 · 38.0% visibility

Confluent is a data streaming platform built on and extending Apache Kafka, offering fully managed cloud (Confluent Cloud), self-managed on-premises (Confluent Platform), private cloud (Confluent Private Cloud), and BYOC (WarpStream) deployments. Its integrated capabilities span event streaming with autoscaling Kafka clusters, 120+ managed connectors, serverless Apache Flink stream processing, a stream governance suite (Schema Registry, Stream Catalog, Stream Lineage), Tableflow for lakehouse integration with Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake, and Confluent Intelligence for AI-powered streaming analytics and agentic AI workflows. It serves as real-time data infrastructure for event-driven applications, fraud detection, generative AI pipelines, CDC, and IoT at enterprise scale, with enterprise-grade security, compliance certifications, and FedRAMP Moderate authorization for government use cases.

Redpanda

Rank #2 · 29.3% visibility

Redpanda is an Apache Kafka API-compatible, high-performance event streaming and agentic data infrastructure platform. Its single-binary C++ broker eliminates JVM and ZooKeeper overhead. The product suite includes Redpanda Streaming (the core broker with tiered storage and Iceberg support), Redpanda Connect (300+ connector stream processing engine), and the Agentic Data Plane (unified governance, MCP integration, and SQL query layer for enterprise AI agents). Available as open source, self-managed enterprise, serverless cloud, and BYOC managed deployments.

StreamNative

Rank #3 · 16.0% visibility

StreamNative delivers a cloud-native messaging and event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar and the Ursa Engine. The Ursa Engine introduces a lakehouse-native, leaderless architecture that persists streaming data directly to object storage as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, enabling enterprises to run Kafka workloads at a fraction of traditional costs while unifying real-time and batch pipelines. The platform supports Pulsar, Kafka, MQTT, REST, and WebSocket protocols, making it suitable for both new-build event-driven architectures and Kafka migration projects. Deployment options span fully managed Serverless and Dedicated tiers, a BYOC model for data sovereignty, and a self-managed Private Cloud. An Agent Engine (in preview) extends the platform to event-driven AI agents with built-in governance, RBAC, and audit capabilities.

Ably

Rank #4 · 10.0% visibility

Ably is a realtime experience platform offering a composable suite of products built on a globally distributed WebSocket edge network. Its core offerings include Pub/Sub (flexible channel-based messaging with guaranteed delivery), Chat (purpose-built chat APIs with typing, presence, reactions, and push notifications), AI Transport (durable realtime sessions for AI agents), LiveObjects (synchronized shared state), Spaces (multiplayer collaboration primitives), and LiveSync (database-to-client change propagation). All products share a unified infrastructure with SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 compliance, 22+ language SDKs, and 19+ managed integrations.

NATS

Rank #5 · 8.7% visibility

Synadia builds and maintains NATS.io, a high-performance open-source messaging and data system that unifies pub/sub messaging, persistent streaming (JetStream), key-value storage, and object storage in a single binary deployable from cloud to constrained edge devices. Commercial products include Synadia Cloud (managed global NATS supercluster), Synadia Platform (enterprise single-tenant managed NATS), Synadia Deploy for Kubernetes, and Synadia Insights (NATS-native observability). NATS's adaptive edge topology—using leaf nodes and superclusters—enables organizations to build globally distributed systems that operate reliably even under intermittent connectivity.

WarpStream

Rank #6 · 3.3% visibility

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka-compatible, diskless data streaming platform that runs entirely within a customer's own cloud account (BYOC) using object storage as its sole data plane. Deployed as a stateless agent binary, it eliminates inter-AZ networking costs, local disk management, and partition rebalancing. Core products include the WarpStream BYOC streaming cluster, Tableflow (Iceberg table materialization from Kafka topics), Orbit (offset-preserving Kafka replication), a BYOC Schema Registry, Managed Data Pipelines (100+ connectors via Bento), and Multi-Region Clusters with RPO=0. It is Kafka-protocol compatible, requiring only a URL change in existing client libraries.

RabbitMQ

Rank #7 · 2.7% visibility

RabbitMQ is an open-source, general-purpose message broker built on AMQP and extended to MQTT, STOMP, and WebSockets. It provides flexible exchange-based routing, Raft-replicated quorum queues, built-in streaming, and a plugin ecosystem deployable on-premises, in the cloud, or on Kubernetes. A commercial VMware Tanzu edition under Broadcom adds enterprise security, disaster recovery standby clusters, and long-term support.

Upstash

Rank #8 · 1.3% visibility

Upstash is a serverless data platform offering Redis-compatible key-value storage, QStash (push-based serverless message queue and task scheduler with guaranteed delivery, retries, and CRON scheduling), Upstash Vector (serverless vector database for AI/LLM workloads), Upstash Workflow (durable serverless function orchestration), Upstash Search (full-text search), and Upstash Realtime. All products share an HTTP/REST API model, per-request consumption pricing with scale-to-zero economics, and global multi-region replication, purpose-built for serverless and edge computing environments.

PubNub

Rank #9 · 0.7% visibility

PubNub is a fully managed, globally distributed real-time messaging and event-driven platform that enables developers to add live interactivity—chat, push notifications, presence, geolocation, IoT control, and real-time analytics—to web, mobile, and IoT applications via APIs and 70+ SDKs, without managing underlying infrastructure.