Free Apache Kafka Alternatives

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Apache Spark is a free and open-source, unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Apache Spark achieves high performance for both batch and streaming data, using a state-of-the-art DAG scheduler, a query optimizer, and a physical execution engine. With Apache Spark, you can write application quickly in Java, Scala, Python, R, and SQL. Spark also offers over 80 high-level operators that make it easy to build parallel apps. You can run Apache Spark anywhere, as a standalone product, in the cloud or on Hadoop, Apache Mesos or Kubernetes.

With RabbitMQ your applications gets a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received. Allowing your application to handle long-running or blocking tasks, and respond quickly to requests instead of being forced to perform computationally intensive tasks on the spot. The software is developed and released as open-source and is currently the most widley used free and open-source message-broker. Commercial, enterprise releases of RabbitMQ is also avalible for a subscription fee.

Apache Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data for real-time processing. It is a distributed stream processing computation framework written predominantly in the programming language Clojure. The software is released free and open-source under the Apache License. In a nutshell, Apache Storm does to real-time processing, what Apache Hadoop did to bactch processing. Large corporations like Weather Channel, FullContact, Twitter, Yahoo, Spotify, and Alibaba use and trust Apache Storm for big data analytics with fault-tolerance and fast data processing.