Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Wafka
Apache Kafka over the web
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Wafka launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source, versatile, fast and lightweight UI for Kafka
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers - maxwellpeterson/kafka-worker
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kafka Web UI. Contribute to obsidiandynamics/kafdrop development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kafka Socks▲81An easy-to-use, lightweight KafkaJS to Socket.io library
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is the source code to Franz, a native desktop client for Apache Kafka I've been working on for the past ~three years or so. Around 2021, I started using Kafka at a startup and I didn't like any of the clients that were available at the time, so I decided to build my own in my spare time[1]. I wanted a solid native experience on the Mac that wasn't web based and didn't require any Docker containers to run. A few months ago, I decided to make the code source-available[2] in part because I like the idea of my users being able to see the code they're running and in part because I want to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging. - redpanda-data/console
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · alooma.com · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go. - lovoo/goka
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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kaskade is a text user interface for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style! - sauljabin/kaskade
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Powerful, SQL-enabled streaming platform for Apache Kafka®.
2017 · its alternatives →
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2021 · 1900jwatson.medium.com · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Web UI for managing Apache Kafka clusters - Release 1.0: Messages overhaul, editable ACLs · kafbat/kafka-ui
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🦭 Distributed log streaming engine built from first principles - nubskr/walrus
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Everyone! We built SQLFlow as a lightweight stream processing engine. We leverage DuckDB as the stream processing engine, which gives SQLFlow the ability to process 10's of thousands of messages a second using ~250MiB of memory! DuckDB also supports a rich ecosystem of sinks and connectors! https://sql-flow.com/docs/category/tutorials/ https://github.com/turbolytics/sql-flow We were tired of running JVM's for simple stream processing, and also of bespoke one off stream processors I would love your feedback, criticisms and/or…
Dec 2025 · sql-flow.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm excited to announce the release of Kiwi v0.1.1. I started working on Kiwi a few months ago with the primary motivation of providing an extensible WebSocket adapter that allows client applications to securely subscribe to real-time data sources such as Kafka. Often times, there is a desire to extend the real-time data that flows through sources like Kafka to end users in a fast and secure manner. Rather than standing up custom solutions, Kiwi lets operators focus on writing business logic, by loading custom WASM plugins that handle tasks like authorization and event filtering per…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A realtime server for the modern web
2016 · deepstream.io · its alternatives →
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An Android client for internet archive
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Effortless Kafka integration for your web services
2023 · fastkafka.airt.ai · its alternatives →
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