Best Free Real-Time Data Streaming Tools

StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is a fully managed real-time analytics platform built for customer-facing applications that demand instant insights on the freshest data. Unlike traditional data warehouses or OLTP databases—optimized for back-office reporting or transactions—StarTree is engineered for real-time OLAP at true scale, meaning: - Data Volume: query performance sustained at petabyte scale - Ingest Rates: millions of events per second, continuously indexed for freshness - Concurrency: thousands to millions of simultaneous users served with sub-second latency With StarTree, businesses deliver always-fresh insights at interactive speed, enabling applications that personalize, monitor, and act in real time.

Solace PubSub+ Platform helps enterprises design, deploy and manage event-driven systems across hybrid and multi-cloud and IoT environments so they can be more event-driven and operate in real-time. The PubSub+ Platform includes the powerful PubSub+ Event Brokers, event management capabilities with PubSub+ Event Portal, as well as monitoring and integration capabilities all available via a single cloud console. PubSub+ allows easy creation of an event mesh, an interconnected network of event brokers, allowing for seamless and dynamic data movement across highly distributed network environments. PubSub+ Event Brokers can be deployed as fully managed cloud services, self-managed software in private cloud or on-premises environments, or as turnkey hardware appliances for unparalleled performance and low TCO. PubSub+ Event Portal is a complimentary toolset for design and governance of event-driven systems including both Solace and Kafka-based event broker environments.

​Lightstreamer is an event broker optimized for the internet, ensuring seamless real-time data delivery across the web. Unlike traditional brokers, Lightstreamer automatically handles proxies, firewalls, disconnections, network congestion, and the general unpredictability of the internet. With its intelligent streaming feature, Lightstreamer guarantees real-time data transmission, always finding a way to deliver your data reliably and efficiently, ensuring robust last-mile messaging. Lightstreamer offers technology that is both mature and cutting-edge, continuously evolving to stay at the forefront of innovation. With a proven track record and years of field-tested performance, Lightstreamer ensures your data is delivered reliably and efficiently. Experience unparalleled reliability in any scenario with Lightstreamer.

SQLstream ranks #1 for IoT stream processing & analytics (ABI Research). Used by Verizon, Walmart, Cisco, & Amazon, our technology powers applications across data centers, the cloud, & the edge. Thanks to sub-ms latency, SQLstream enables live dashboards, time-critical alerts, & real-time action. Smart cities can optimize traffic light timing or reroute ambulances & fire trucks. Security systems can shut down hackers & fraudsters right away. AI / ML models, trained by streaming sensor data, can predict equipment failures. With lightning performance, up to 13M rows / sec / CPU core, companies have drastically reduced their footprint & cost. Our efficient, in-memory processing permits operations at the edge that are otherwise impossible. Acquire, prepare, analyze, & act on data in any format from any source. Create pipelines in minutes not months with StreamLab, our interactive, low-code GUI dev environment. Export SQL scripts & deploy with the flexibility of Kubernetes.

Responsive applications keep users engaged and developers inspired. Rise to meet these ever-increasing expectations with the DataStax Astra Streaming service platform. DataStax Astra Streaming is a cloud-native messaging and event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar. Astra Streaming allows you to build streaming applications on top of an elastically scalable, multi-cloud messaging and event streaming platform. Astra Streaming is powered by Apache Pulsar, the next-generation event streaming platform which provides a unified solution for streaming, queuing, pub/sub, and stream processing. Astra Streaming is a natural complement to Astra DB. Using Astra Streaming, existing Astra DB users can easily build real-time data pipelines into and out of their Astra DB instances. With Astra Streaming, avoid vendor lock-in and deploy on any of the major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) compatible with open-source Apache Pulsar.