Redpanda - A Kafka API compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads

Redpanda is a streaming platform for mission critical workloads. It is Kafka API compatible so any client that works with Kafka should work out of the box with Redpanda. It does not have dependency on ZooKeeper, JVM. Redpanda is a new storage engine, optimized for streaming data, using a thread-per-core architecture focused on delivering stable tail-latencies. It transforms data inline with embedded WASM engine.

Its features include:

• Kafka API compatible 
• Up to 4x faster Kafka transactions
• Automatic data and load rebalancing
• Automatic hardware optimization
• Unlimited partitions for extreme flexibility    
• Built-in HTTP support    
• Support for favorite Kafka tooling    
• Built-in Prometheus support    
• Native K8s operator
• Automatic leadership rebalancing    
• TLS encryption in flight
• Unlimited horizontal scaling