The Data Streaming Landscape 2023

Data streaming is a new software category to process data in motion. Apache Kafka is the de facto standard used by over 100,000 organizations. Plenty of vendors offer Kafka platforms and cloud services. Many complementary stream processing engines like Apache Flink and SaaS offerings have emerged. And competitive technologies like Pulsar and Redpanda try to get market share. This blog post explores the data streaming landscape of 2023 to summarize existing solutions and market trends.

(Originally posted on Kai Waehner’s blog: “The Data Streaming Landscape 2023”… Join the data streaming community and stay informed about new blog posts by subscribing to my newsletter)

Data streaming is a new software category

Data-driven applications are the new black. This approach increases the business value as the overall goal by increasing revenue, reducing cost, reducing risk, or improving the customer experience.

Plenty of software categories and related data platforms exist to process and analyze data:

• Database: Store and execute transactional workloads.
• Data Warehouse: Processing structured historical data to create recurring reports and unique insights.
• Data Lake: Processing structured and semi- or unstructured big…