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Confluent vs Redpanda

Confluent provides a cloud-native event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka for real-time data pipelines. Acquired by IBM for $11B in March 2026.

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Redpanda

Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming platform built in C++ that eliminates the need for ZooKeeper and JVM overhead.

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