Open source kafka projects

Every project in the registry tagged kafka, ranked by real GitHub adoption.

projects 16 combined stars ★ 76K refresh nightly
01 telegraf ★ 18K

Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

last push8 hours ago languageGo licenseMIT
02 debezium ★ 13K

Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.

last push9 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
03 AutoMQ ★ 11K

S3-based serverless Kafka reinvented for cost efficiency

last push7 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
04 flink-cdc ★ 6.5K

Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool

last push19 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
05 Flexprice ★ 5.5K

Open source metering and billing infrastructure for any pricing model

last push11 hours ago languageGo licenseAGPL-3.0
06 Memgraph ★ 4.6K

High-performance graph computing for scalable data analysis

last push7 hours ago languageC++ license
07 peerdb ★ 3.3K

Fast, Simple and a cost effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage

last push12 hours ago languageGo licenseAGPL-3.0
08 OpenMeter ★ 2.3K

Real-time usage metering and billing for AI companies

last push10 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
09 Sequin ★ 2.2K

Open-source message stream built on Postgres

last push7 months ago languageElixir licenseMIT
10 go-streams ★ 2.2K

A lightweight stream processing library for Go

last push8 months ago languageGo licenseMIT
11 GoNavi ★ 1.9K

High-performance multi-data-source database client — ~30MB, AI & MCP ready, zero Electron bloat. | 高性能多数据源数据库客户端:约 30MB,AI 与 MCP 就绪,告别 Electron 膨胀。

last push17 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseApache-2.0
12 Trench ★ 1.7K

Fast, scalable analytics infrastructure

last push5 months ago languageTypeScript licenseMIT
13 olake ★ 1.5K

OLake - Fastest Databases, Kafka & S3 Replication to Apache Iceberg with Table optimization (Called OLake Fusion). ⚡ Efficient, quick and scalable data ingestio

last push13 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
14 zerocode ★ 1.0K

zerocode-tdd is a community-developed, free, open-source, outcome-driven automated testing framework for Data Pipelines, ETL, REST API, Kafka(Data Streams), Dat

last push5 days ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
15 WorkFlow-Engine ★ 865

工作流引擎对内提供单位/机关流程管理规则和内部业务流程的数字化落地实践;对外提供自动化地第三方业务驱动、接口接入和算法单元驱动能力。工作流引擎在提供底层驱动引擎的同时对全局透明监控、安全防御和国产化特色功能进行充分考虑,是内部流程管理和业务算法驱动的不二之选。

last pushyesterday languageJava licenseGPL-3.0
16 conduit ★ 611

Conduit streams data between data stores. Kafka Connect replacement. No JVM required.

last push18 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0

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Frequently asked questions

How many open source kafka projects are there?

This registry tracks 16 projects tagged kafka, with 75,700 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is telegraf at 17,807 stars.

Are these kafka projects free to use?

Yes — 15 of the 16 carry an explicit open-source licence across 4 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.

Which kafka project should I choose?

The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.

Are these kafka projects still maintained?

13 of the 16 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.