Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka vs. Apache Kafka

Red Hat® OpenShift® Streams for Apache Kafka is a managed cloud service that provides a streamlined developer experience for building, deploying, and scaling new cloud-native applications or modernizing existing systems.

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It is designed to handle real-time data feeds with high throughput and low latency, making it ideal for building data pipelines, streaming analytics, and integrating data across various systems. Kafka enables organizations to publish, store, and process streams of records in a fault-tolerant and scalable manner, supporting mission-critical applications across diverse industries.