Bufstream

Elastic, self-hosted Kafka with Advanced Semantic Intelligence
Guarantee streaming data quality and slash cloud costs with Bufstream, a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka.

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Guaranteed data quality

Bufstream eliminates bad data at the broker: rather than hoping that every producer will opt into validation, Bufstream agents work with the Buf Schema Registry to enforce quality controls for all topics with Protobuf schemas. Bad data is immediately rejected, so consumers can trust that the data they receive will always match the appropriate schema and adhere to any semantic constraints.

10x lower cloud costs

Bufstream replaces traditional disks with object storage, the most reliable and cost-effective cloud storage primitive. By eliminating expensive network-attached volumes and delegating cross-zone data replication to object storage Bufstream reduces cloud costs 10x compared to Apache Kafka — while remaining fully compatible with Kafka clients, connectors, and tools.

Air-gapped deployment

Your data is your most valuable, sensitive asset — you should own it. Bufstream runs fully within your AWS or GCP VPC, without any dependencies on external services.

Coming soon: Iceberg and RBAC

Over the coming months, Bufstream will natively support Apache Iceberg and field-level access controls. Publishing to a topic will automatically produce a ready-to-query Iceberg table, and Bufstream agents will use schema annotations to hide sensitive fields from less-privileged consumers.

Transparent Pricing

Bufstream pricing is simple: just $0.002 per uncompressed GiB written (about $2 per TiB). We don't charge any per-core, per-agent, or per-call fees.