Ursa: A Cost-Efficient Kafka-Compatible Streaming Platform with 10x Performance
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Summary
The article introduces Ursa, a leaderless and stateless Kafka-compatible streaming platform that significantly reduces infrastructure costs by up to 95%. It highlights the Ursa Engine's ability to integrate Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar, offering 10x performance improvements and multi-tenancy support for secure data isolation. The platform writes directly to Iceberg & Delta Lake, making it a cost-effective solution for data streaming.
Key quotes
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Kafka Protocol: The de facto streaming protocol, reborn with 10x performance powered by the Ursa Engine.
Multi-tenancy allows multiple teams, departments, or customers to share the same infrastructure while keeping data, resources, and workloads securely isolated.
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