Alibaba Cloud Message Queue for Apache Kafka vs Apache Pulsar

Alibaba Cloud Message Queue for Apache Kafka

5.1 #16 in Event Streaming Platforms

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Apache Pulsar

7.2 #7 in Message Queue (MQ) Software

About Apache Pulsar
Alibaba Cloud Message Queue for Apache KafkaApache Pulsar
Free planNoYes
Free trialNoNo
Paid from—Free
Open sourceNoNo
PlatformsWebapi, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Windows
Free planNoYes
Deployment modelcloudself-hosted
Stream processingYesYes
Delivery guaranteeat-least-onceboth
Supported client languagesJava, Python, C++, Go, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, C#Java, Go, Python, C++, C#/.NET, Node.js, WebSocket
Schema registry—Yes

Both are listed in Best Event Streaming Platforms. On Inferse, Apache Pulsar scores higher on our published basis.