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Redpanda Data Overview

What is Redpanda Data?

Redpanda is the most complete, Apache Kafka®-compatible streaming data platform, designed from the ground up to be lighter, faster, and simpler to operate. The all-in-one platform allows data teams to build fast, spend less, and reduce risk — all while prioritizing a superior end-to-end developer experience.

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Redpanda is designed for developer ease of use, but with support, security, storage, and streamlined connectivity to fuel critical business applications with the freshest data.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

When compared to Kafka-compatible commercial alternatives, Redpanda is:

• Simpler to use for infusing real-time data across applications. It’s one stop to connect data sources, process transformations, and govern & explore data streams, in a single self-contained package.

• Easier for building composable data pipelines. Redpanda Connect is an ecosystem of high performance streaming connectors. It requires 3x less compute resources than Kafka Connect, and provides 250+ pre-built open-source connectors.

• Safer for critical workloads. Redpanda runs anywhere securely, supports open data formats, and enables enterprise compliance. Run on-prem or as a managed service, with BYOC options on AWS, GCP and Azure. Query from your SQL engine of choice with support for Apache Iceberg™. Ease compliance with audit logs, RBAC and more.

• Able to reduce the cost of streaming data by 6x. With a hardware-efficient design, Redpanda consumes 3x lower compute resources on average. Tiered Storage provides cost-efficient data retention.


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184 employees on LinkedIn®
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Redpanda is a simple, powerful, and cost-efficient streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka® APIs while eliminating Kafka complexity.


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Tarik J.
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Tarik J.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Cost effective, flexible solution for Kafka users"
Redpanda has been a powerful part of our infrastructure, it enables us to have the scalability and reliability that we need while being low touch a...
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Adam L.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Scalability, Usability, Stability - Pick all"
Red Panda is substantlially easier to get up and running than a traditional Kafka queueing solution; while it's also more scalable and performance.
Taylor B.
TB
Taylor B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Quality software delivered by a quality team"
Redpanda's team and their product have been nothing but a positive experience for our company. Our Redpanda BYOC cluster is on the frontline keepin...
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Tony F.
TF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

RedPanda is a single binary which makes it much simpler to operate than other Kafka distributions. This allows us to develop and test faster and deploy more frequently.

Their managed clusters have been rock solid, and their support is really helpful.

Switching to RedPanda was very easy for us, as we were already using Kafka. There were zero code changes necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

There were a few operational difficulties at the beginning our managed cluster journey. We were on their first versions of managed clusters. The next version came out shortly after we started, which meant we were already faced with a migration.

This was a one time event, and we were early-ish adopters, so I don't anticipate any further disruptions of this sort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

RedPanda is our platform event streaming. We use it to stream events between microservices. We also use it as a source for our data analysts get access to our application data and glean meaningful insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

We've been leveraging Redpanda's BYOC cluster for around two years. It has become a core component of our system, particularly for service-to-service communication, and it shines for its user-friendliness and seamless integration. What really enhances our experience is the exceptional customer support and account management—always outstanding in their service. Their quick and considerate responses have been pivotal during our implementation, helping us overcome obstacles efficiently and ensuring our development and operations proceed without a hitch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

While Redpanda has been a great asset to our system, I believe there's room for improvement in the area of connectors. Specifically, it would be highly beneficial to have a broader range of built-in connectors available. Additionally, simplifying the process for integrating custom connectors would be a welcome change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our system is built around an Event-Driven architecture, with Redpanda serving as the backbone for all our service-to-service communications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RD
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

It works. It's incredibly performant. It's reliable. It's easy to use. And it's well documented. What else could you want in a streaming platform. It does everything that Kafka does. It does things that Kafka doesn't.

Want to spin up a fully featured multi-cluster node in docker-compose for testing or dev work? Easy.

Got a question? Super thourough documentation, and support.

And it supports higher thoughput than Kafka, while consuming less resources.

I cannot recommend it enough as a streaming platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

I have been using Redpanda fairly heavily for three years, and don't have anything bad to say about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

We want an event streaming platform that is more than anything reliable, and able to handle huge rates of data. Higher rates than we could get through Kafka. And Redpanda handles both. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Karl T.
KT
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

We are replacing Kafka throughout all our systems with Redpanda and have been pleased with the performance and ease of use. The permanent backup to S3 to allow full replay of topics is a game changer of us. Additionally, support has been very responsive when we have had questions or issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

Some behavior was a little counterintuitive to us at first but now that we are more familiar with Redpanda we haven't had any significant issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data streaming at scale with no TTL on storing the data for replay Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games
UC
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

We're using RedPanda to build our reactive event-firehose for our upcoming video games. I've used Apache Kafka since it was open-sourced, and believe me when I tell you, there is no better version of the Kafka protocol on the market. The technology is rock solid from both a stability and performance aspect. I have the upmost respect for their engineering team at RedPanda. They absolutely obsess over the lowest level implementation detail, as opposed to "Just get it working". Performance to them is measured in the microseconds, not milliseconds. Their attention to detail gives me the confidence that our data isn't just going to get to its destination fast, but it will get there safely.

Their tooling (even for open source) makes our engineers far more productive than if they were using Apache Kafka. It's easy for our engineers to get a local RedPanda running to both try and implement new ideas. Finally, all of our existing tools work with RedPanda (Kafka) out-of-the-box without any sort of makeshift changes.

The support team at RedPanda have been oustanding at every step of our journey. There is no better team equipped to get you to where you need to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

Having leveraged RedPanda and their team for the past year, and their technology since it was first open-source, I can confidently say there's very little to nothing left on the table of desire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

RedPanda is being used to build our self-service data analytics platform to empower our engineers to build better and more meaningful games. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

- > Easy to Setup and Use

- > True partners, than just another vendor - great support for custom design/ use-cases etc.

-> BYOC option

-> Great UI

-> Get a real-time platform setup and ready in almost no time.

-> Easy to integrate with other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

Been with the product and people for quite some time now and have seen the product evolve quite a lot with so much good improvements and add-ons.

A few missing pieces (which I believe are in the pipeline) are around programmatic ACL/Topic setup : something like a CRD so its easy to integrate and manage it into a CI/CD pipeline than do it manually on UI...but I am hopeful, this will come soon! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides us with a streaming platform - easy to integrate and manage..to allow us to build important capabilities such as ML based Real time Fraud Engine etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
EB
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

Kafka-compatible in an easier to consume, faster and cheaper package. Great company to work with and delivers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

Redpanda are still adding features but also remaining innovative Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streaming is at the heart of complex systems and for Fintechs this capability is critical yet also complex to implement, scale and manage.

Redpanda provides the heart of our streaming solutions - and as cloud hosted service removes much of the implementations and operational overhead.

Redpanda have taken the opportunity to learn from the open source project with a simpler and more scalable approach yet with kafka compatibility that support and integration into the wider kafka ecosytem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

It's very easy to use. Redpanda has replaced Kafka in our integration testing and we've been using it in production for more than a year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

The Tiered Storage support could still somewhat unstable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

Redpanda is used as a backbone of our infrastructure. It's the source of truth that powers all user-facing datasets. We leverage ClickHouse and Apache Flink together with Redpanda to provide critical real-time data pipelines to our users.

It has support for Tiered Storage, which allows us to use it as a source of truth. It's very cost-efficient. The compatibility with the Kafka protocol is great, we've never had any issues with that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jordi M.
JM
CTO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

I love their performance, scalability, deployment options... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

I would love to have more connectors to third party platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Redpanda to connect our services and storages. We are also starting to use it to connect our product and salesforce. It allows us to deliver realtime data platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AL
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Redpanda Data?

Red Panda is substantlially easier to get up and running than a traditional Kafka queueing solution; while it's also more scalable and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redpanda Data?

So far, nothing really. The team has been extremely helpful, the application was trivial to deploy, and we've had few if any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redpanda Data solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need a highly available, highly scalable real-time throughput persistence solution. Red Pandas offers this to us in spades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.