Most primitive lighweight alternative to Kafka?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/selfhosted

Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • redpanda

    Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

  • Gotify

    A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time per WebSocket. (Includes a sleek web-ui) (by gotify)

    If you don't need mobile push, you can check https://gotify.net/ which is pretty simple

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • NATS

    High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

    Would NATS work?

  • liftbridge

    Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams.

    Do you need the messages to be durable, if so you can have a look at Liftbridge: - https://liftbridge.io/ - https://github.com/liftbridge-io/liftbridge

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts