# redpanda-data/redpanda

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

Repository: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/redpanda
Homepage: https://redpanda.com
Language: C++
License Family: other
Topics: kafka, cpp, kubernetes, go, streaming, redpanda, containers, realtime, event-driven, microservices, storage-engine, stream-processing, seastar
Last push: 2026-08-22T00:45:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2130, "days_push": 12, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 5.0, "n_releases_24m": 111}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 12486, forks 785 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:59.168827+00:00)

## What it is
Redpanda is a Kafka API-compatible streaming data platform written in C++ on the Seastar framework, with no ZooKeeper or JVM dependency. It provides high-performance real-time event streaming, tiered storage, and an agentic data plane for governing AI agents.

## Use cases
- replace kafka without zookeeper or jvm
- stream real-time events between microservices
- build event-driven data pipelines
- run a lightweight kafka-compatible message broker
- govern and audit ai agent access to data
- ingest high-throughput telemetry in real time

## When to choose
- you need kafka API compatibility with simpler operations and lower latency
- you want to eliminate ZooKeeper and JVM operational overhead
- you need tiered storage for cost-effective long-term event retention
- you are building real-time or agentic AI data infrastructure

## When to avoid
- you need a fully managed service and cannot self-host or use cloud offerings
- you rely on niche Kafka features or ecosystem tooling with strict version requirements
- you only need simple pub/sub without streaming semantics

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: message-queue, streaming, database, api-framework
- domain: microservices, big-data
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, cpp
- tags: kafka-compatible, event-streaming, no-zookeeper, no-jvm, seastar, tiered-storage, rpk, agentic-data-plane, messaging, data-engineering, real-time, ai-agents, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- redpanda-data/redpanda (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.168827+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:14:01.133027+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.168827+00:00, sha 3bca68f5e1fb)
  - homepage: https://redpanda.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:47.978792+00:00, sha 4b3a58e8da2a)
  - site_page: https://docs.redpanda.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:47.984212+00:00, sha ef4b8c4fd806)
  - site_page: https://www.redpanda.com/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:47.986562+00:00, sha 8f8a05d74054)
  - site_page: https://docs.redpanda.com/home (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:47.988722+00:00, sha ef4b8c4fd806)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.