Join the Real-Time Rebellion
The IBM Confluent Complexity Empire strikes back. But there's a new hope — an independent, simpler future of data streaming.
Choose your side.
BRAVEÂ Customers that ALREADYÂ JOINED
⚠️ TRANSMISSION INTERCEPTED:
Imperial plans unveiled
Even as the IBM Confluent Empire pulls more of the galaxy into its slow-moving orbit, imperial forces continue to hunt down streaming rebels. They're sending bounty hunters (sales teams) after Redpanda customers with aggressive buyout offers, promising the moon while wielding their massive legacy fleet. That means more bundles, more complexity, and a roadmap that's driven by one mega-vendor's priorities — not yours.
But every rebellion starts with those brave enough to demand better. To demand simple yet powerful data streaming without oppressive complexity.
The dark side of streaming
Costs and complexity that are out of this world
The imperial tax
IBM paid a premium for Confluent, and that money has to come from somewhere. Don't wait for the shoe to drop — legacy vendors always raise prices to cover their conquests.
Innovation stuck in carbonite
While the Empire consolidates its way to a new platform, it's a slow and bureaucratic process. Escape the deep freeze on new features — Redpanda jumps to lightspeed (and hyperscale) instantly.
Attack of the clones
IBM now has half a dozen competing streaming engines in its portfolio, each one playing Imperial politics. Don't bet your business on a "Clone Army" of overlapping tools fighting for resources.
It's a trap!
Avoid the tractor beam of a monolithic vendor. Choose a streaming platform that gives you the freedom to deploy on any cloud, anywhere, without the iron grip of vendor lock-in.
The Redpanda Alliance: A new hope
Built for those brave enough to resist
Hyperdrive performance
Built in C++ from the ground up, Redpanda offers a quantum leap in throughput and latency using a fraction of the hardware. Make the jump to lightspeed and leave the JVM lag behind.
Bring Balance to Disaster Recovery
When the Force is disturbed, failover is instant. Shadowing for disaster recovery in Redpanda maintains perfect balance with an offset-preserving, byte-for-byte replica that stands ready, safe in a separate region of the galaxy.
An Alliance for Every SQL Engine
The Rebellion welcomes everyone — Snowflake, Databricks, Trino, and beyond. With Iceberg Topics, your Redpanda streams are instantly accessible as structured tables. No ETL droids required.
Infinite scale, rebel pricing
Retain petabytes of history without needing an Imperial budget. Cloud Topics in Redpanda automatically write to object storage, giving you infinite retention and superior price-performance.
Stories from the rebellion
Learn why these brave customers switched sides
WiLLÂ YOUÂ Choose freedom from complexity?
Join the rebellion today
Before your streaming strategy is permanently tied to The Empire's roadmap.
