Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Built a low-latency on-chain data stream: We'd love feedback launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Frame.io 2▲196

   A radically reimagined way to collaborate on video

   2017 · blog.frame.io · its alternatives →

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   We built rescaling for distributed stateful stream processing▲5

   2023 · bytewax.io · its alternatives →

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   deepstreamHub▲87

   A faster Firebase with an open source core

   2017 · deepstreamhub.com · its alternatives →

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   KORE.io▲88

   A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C

   2015 · kore.io · its alternatives →

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   StreamDuo – A platform for B2B data streaming▲7

   2022 · streamduo.com · its alternatives →

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   Datomic▲73

   Distributed immutable transactional database for the cloud

   2014 · datomic.com · its alternatives →

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   ZeroQueue, A low-code queue management system▲6

   2020 · zeroqueue.dev · its alternatives →

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   Concord – High Performance Stream Processing with C++ and Apache Mesos▲7

   2016 · concord.io · its alternatives →

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   Ranvier, a Node.js based telnet MUD codebase▲5

   2017 · ranviermud.com · its alternatives →

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    Onyx▲7

    Distributed computation for the cloud

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    TinySSE, an SSE server programmable with Lua▲5

    2025 · tinysse.com · its alternatives →

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    Database Lab – thin Postgres clones for faster development and testing▲7

    2020 · postgres.ai · its alternatives →

13. 13LA
    liblb - A Study and Library of Load Balancing Algorithms▲9

    2017 · liblb.com · its alternatives →

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    Streaming data analysis on Colab with the help of Bokeh▲5

    2023 · colab.research.google.com · its alternatives →

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    I presented a novel efficient streaming algorithm▲12

    This paper has been accepted to KDD2025.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The simplest tool to test website latency from multiple locations▲7

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pipelines: framework and language for crafting data pipelines▲5

    An experimental programming language for data flow - calebwin/pipelines

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Starlette – An asyncio Web framework for Python▲8

    2018 · starlette.io · its alternatives →

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    Sink – A Link Shortener with Analytics, 100% Run on Cloudflare▲5

    2024 · sink.cool · its alternatives →

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    Building a Real-Time Data App with Dozer, React, and PostgreSQL▲8

    2023 · getdozer.io · its alternatives →

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    Ways to build real time interactions with Apache Spark▲9

    2017 · spoddutur.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Litewait – A Bandwidth Saving Browser▲7

    2019 · freedemo.litewait.io · its alternatives →

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    Jsong: faster than light streaming JSON parser and writer in C▲9

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dispy▲8

    A python module for distributed and parallel computing

    2017 · dispy.sourceforge.net · its alternatives →

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