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Redpanda vs Striim comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
3.5
Users experience high ROI from Redpanda due to cost savings, operational efficiency, easy setup, and enhanced investment experience.
Sentiment score
7.9
Striim enhances efficiency by reducing data sync time and incidents, saving organizations significant time and operational costs.
I have seen a return on investment and personal gains since I started using Redpanda.
Senior Software Engineer at Prestatech
The incidents have disappeared completely since I have been using Striim.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim's continuous pipeline safely processes millions of daily transactions without data loss; my organization had millions of transactions every day and even in real-time, so it was quite good.
Mainframe lead at Infosys
Since it is now one to two hours, I would say it has saved employee hours and time.
Data Engineer
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
4.9
Redpanda's customer service is valued for its knowledgeable support, useful community, and helpful resources during onboarding processes.
Sentiment score
6.8
Striim's customer service is praised for prompt, expert assistance, particularly in z/OS architecture and DB2 logs troubleshooting.
Redpanda has really amazing customer support based on my experience and from what I have read.
Senior Software Engineer at Prestatech
Not the technical support as in the usual way, but the community and the development support was great.
Software Engineer
The AWS team is also supporting us at any point.
SDE-2 at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
They are all knowledgeable about what they do.
Data Engineer
When you contact them, they give you a response straight away and help you identify the issue and fix it.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The customer support has been excellent, and their engineers actually understand z/OS architecture and DB2 logs.
Mainframe lead at Infosys
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Redpanda is highly scalable, praised for efficient storage and container compatibility, with minor concerns about data retention and complexity.
Sentiment score
7.8
Striim performs well with moderate data volumes, is adaptable, and recommended for hybrid clouds, but enterprise-level scalability is untested.
I would rate it ten out of ten for scalability.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
We never scaled horizontally by adding one machine, then two machines, then three machines, and so forth.
Software Analyst at CLSA
It is properly scalable and you can simply put it on a Kubernetes Pod or Docker Swarm and scale horizontally or vertically.
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Our licensing was based on the number of cores, so even if we have a high number of events on any given day, our license cost would not go high.
Data Engineer
I would describe the scalability of Striim as very good, as it adapts well.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim can handle the data volumes effectively, but it can struggle a little bit if the data volume is too high.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Redpanda is considered highly stable by users, effectively handling workloads with high reliability, consistency, and minimal issues.
Sentiment score
7.9
Users generally find Striim stable with occasional slowdowns and initial synchronization issues, but no major crashes or reliability problems.
Redpanda is very stable.
SDE-2 at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
I do not know about systems with ten thousand microservices and how they would react in that situation, but in our system where the latency and the throughput were way more important with less amount of things integrated with Redpanda, it was fine.
Software Engineer
I would rate it around eight or nine.
Software Analyst at CLSA
That problem has been completely resolved with Striim.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Striim was very stable.
Data Engineer
In my experience, Striim is mostly stable.
Mainframe lead at Infosys
 

Room For Improvement

Redpanda requires better documentation, clustering, hardware support, and improved tools for integration, debugging, and connector options.
Striim needs better performance, especially in batch processing, documentation, user setup, and pricing to satisfy users' needs.
It needs better modern hardware with a better CPU, not just a normal CPU. A server-grade CPU is required.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
The biggest scalability improvement could be the retention.
Data Engineer at Datacrop
I think for the connectors, they are still young, so they need to enhance the connectors with anything such as MongoDB, cloud, big data, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Splunk, MySQL, databases, SGBDR, flat file, anything.
Middleware Tech Lead at MQnovaTool
I believe if Striim could use some part of AWS secrets or its own secret mechanism to store the password, that would really save a lot of time so that I don't have to keep updating the password whenever there is any change.
Data Engineer
They could improve the documentation by showing how to configure with different platforms.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I think Striim could be improved with better pricing and enhanced documentation.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Redpanda provides a cost-effective alternative to Kafka, offering free versions and straightforward setup, with paid support options.
Enterprise users find Striim's pricing based on cores and CPU usage costly, but fair for private cloud setups.
In terms of pricing, Redpanda is free.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Redpanda is that it is straightforward with fast deployment.
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Licensing was a bit more expensive because Striim has to read from Oracle GoldenGate trail files and also integrate them.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
My experience with the pricing, implementation cost, and licensing of Striim is that it is somewhat expensive.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It's very fair.
Data Engineer
 

Valuable Features

Redpanda provides high performance and Kafka compatibility with low resource consumption, benefiting developers with efficient scaling and configuration.
Striim enhances business analytics with real-time data streaming, ease of use, and efficient synchronization, reducing load and overhead.
Redpanda has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to move from a batch approach to a more streaming approach for our jobs, which cuts down on our delivery time and allows us to better meet our SLAs for our clients.
Senior Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
This is excellent for streaming data and it is faster than most alternatives, and without JVM, which is beneficial.
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The command-line interface and the UI have made my work easier by allowing me to deal with topics or with configurations really easily, issuing commands.
Senior Software Engineer at Prestatech
Striim is capable of absorbing a large number of transactions, and the difference between the two databases is always less than a second, which demonstrates efficiency.
Cloud architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There were significant improvements because once we enabled change data capture, the database was not going down at all.
Data Engineer
It reduces manual intervention because it automatically syncs the data from the warehouse.
Technology Specialist Database at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Redpanda
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Striim
Ranking in Streaming Analytics
20th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (44th), Cloud Data Integration (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Streaming Analytics category, the mindshare of Redpanda is 2.1%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Striim is 1.8%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Streaming Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Redpanda2.1%
Striim1.8%
Other96.1%
Streaming Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

ArpitShah - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Analyst at CLSA
Event streaming has simplified video data cleanup and now powers real-time analytics
One area for improvement is providing more examples. For instance, Redpanda could be more useful as a sink where you get the data and can directly push to S3. While this is possible through the API, there are better and faster ways to do it. You can make a million API calls and accomplish the task in one and a half hours, but the same thing can be done in ten minutes through other methods. These faster approaches are not documented in obvious places. You have to find information scattered across various blogs. Redpanda should collect all the good blogs and best practices and put them in their documentation. This is more about knowledge management and making it easy for users to understand the product for complex use cases. For simple use cases, it is straightforward. We all use the basic pipe functionality. However, providing more examples would be useful. For example, integration with AWS and the AWS ecosystem would be cool.
RV
Data Engineer
Real-time data capture has accelerated releases and now improves trust in our data warehouse
The checkpoints would help me to figure out where the problem was if there's any lag, but I had to do a lot of manual work to figure out where the lag is. Striim would not intuitively tell me the culprit table or database behind the lag. I believe that is an improvement Striim could definitely do. Passwords were an issue. Property variables were not supported for passwords, meaning I had to make sure the password is manually populated. I believe if Striim could read from AWS secrets or its own secret mechanism to store the password, that would really save a lot of time so that I don't have to keep updating the password whenever there is any change. The user experience of triggering alerts if there's any lag which Striim identified, which is outside normal processing time, could intrinsically be done by Striim. I believe that was lacking. I would wait for Striim to tell me, instead of me going and validating whether Striim is lagging behind. If Striim could itself tell me that it's seeing a lot more volume than expected, that would really make me give it a higher number.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Retailer
16%
Construction Company
13%
Healthcare Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Redpanda?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Redpanda, I am exploring the product. If I am convinced about the product and the capabilities, and I am sure I will be because I...
What needs improvement with Redpanda?
Redpanda can be improved in several ways, and the more I experiment with the product, the more limitations I find. I understand that this is about business, and the product should grow, and they ha...
What is your primary use case for Redpanda?
My main use case for Redpanda is primarily for streaming, and I am currently focusing on building data lakehouses because I find them really interesting. Redpanda fits into my data lakehouse setup ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Striim?
It's very fair. We had a private cloud, and it's not based on the number of events. It was based on the number of cores and CPU cores.
What needs improvement with Striim?
The checkpoints would help me to figure out where the problem was if there's any lag, but I had to do a lot of manual work to figure out where the lag is. Striim would not intuitively tell me the c...
What is your primary use case for Striim?
We were using batch data from an Oracle database, which was causing the Oracle database to slow down. We enabled change data capture and used Striim to read data from Oracle databases and ingest in...
 

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Sample Customers

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Sky, UPS, MACY'S, EMAAR, HSBC
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