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“Performance and Flexibility Praised While Pricing Model Raises Significant Concerns”
“Concerns Raised Over Redpanda Operator's Effectiveness”
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Redpanda is a complete Kafka native streaming data platform that’s easy to integrate, simple to scale, and secure to run in any environment. Built-in developer tools and a growing connector ecosystem make it easy, fast, and cost-effective to integrate streaming data with your applications.
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Performance and flexibility of how we can implement it.
The Redpanda UI is one of the most complete out there
Very good documentation and support. BYOC option is great, although we wish the rpk was a little more useful w. the byoc clusters. The built-in prometheus server, as well as the terraform provider and the dataplane_api, makes devops happy :)
The pricing model. When I was last evaluating the pricing was x4 higher than the competitors that we were consider switching away from to use RedPanda.
The Redpanda Operator for Kubernetes.
Many of the operations available with rpk on cloud clusters are not available on byoc clusters. And the dataplane api can be a little cumbersome, but overall there isn't anything we have needed to or wanted to do that we could not, and this is really not too big of an issue for us....but it's the only thing I could think of bc there's not much that comes to mind when I ask myself that question.
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- Director of Engineering<50M USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
Performance and Flexibility Praised While Pricing Model Raises Significant Concerns
RedPanda is an excellent service, but I've had some concerns in the past with the pricing model and pricing themselves out of range from other competitors by VERY large margins. - Director of Engineering50M-1B USDTransportationReview Source
Redpanda Sets High Standard With Exceptional Onboarding and Engineering Support
Redpanda has one of the best customer onboarding experiences I've been through. They were patient and super responsive. They made it simple and worked with us on every detail, from the first call, through the POC and getting the agreement executed. But after the fact, the engineering support....mind blowingly responsive, helpful, and just super awesome people. The account folks are proactive and awesome. There really isn't anything negative I can say, which, I honestly cannot say about the many, many, many other vendors we engage with as a company. Redpanda is the gold standard for us :) - Senior Staff Engineer10B+ USDBankingReview Source
A reliable product, yet to be matured
Redpanda seems to be the go-to technology in our organization. As maintainers of this product we haven't found challenges with its setup. Managing product health along with vendor contracts makes it easy even in spite of facing issues periodically. - Software Developer10B+ USDSoftwareReview Source
Managed kafka as it supposed to be
Redpanda delivers high-quality service as expected from a company providing Kafka-like products for big consumers. It's stable, efficient and is cheaper than running the original Kafka on premise. - Junior Site Reliability Engineer<50M USDSoftwareReview Source
Easy to Configure, Simple to Maintain, and a Great Fit for Modern Streaming
Redpanda has been a great introduction to streaming systems. It was easy to configure, and once it's running, it's simple to maintain. There's still a lot to learn, but the platform makes it easier to get started without needing deep experience with kafka or distributed systems



