Open source kafka projects
Every project in the registry tagged kafka, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.
S3-based serverless Kafka reinvented for cost efficiency
Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool
Open source metering and billing infrastructure for any pricing model
High-performance graph computing for scalable data analysis
Fast, Simple and a cost effective tool to replicate data from Postgres to Data Warehouses, Queues and Storage
Real-time usage metering and billing for AI companies
Open-source message stream built on Postgres
A lightweight stream processing library for Go
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。
Fast, scalable analytics infrastructure
OLake - Fastest Databases, Kafka & S3 Replication to Apache Iceberg with Table optimization (Called OLake Fusion). ⚡ Efficient, quick and scalable data ingestio
zerocode-tdd is a community-developed, free, open-source, outcome-driven automated testing framework for Data Pipelines, ETL, REST API, Kafka(Data Streams), Dat
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。
Conduit streams data between data stores. Kafka Connect replacement. No JVM required.
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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.