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Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

26 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 24 comments · first 2020-11-12 · latest 2025-11-09

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  1. …an existing library. 1: https://github.com/google/leveldb 2: https://github.com/scylladb/seastar 3: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/28351
    comment by rockwotj · 2025-11-09 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
  2. …like the plan is to make Redpanda open-source at some point in the future, but there's no timeline: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/tree/dev/licenses
    comment by kragen · 2025-10-29 · in Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
  3. …a custom sysroot for Redpanda (Bazel/C++/Distributed Kafka) using a really simple docker image: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/blob/dev/bazel/too... We also have an dockerfile for clang/LLVM in that repo so the whole thing is…
    comment by rockwotj · 2025-09-21 · in Bazel and Glibc Versions
  4. …your embedding the right way. Code the code is source available if you want to peek at it! https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/was...
    comment by rockwotj · 2023-12-12 · in The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
  5. …is not a better postgres, fundamentally different tech. you can read the src and design here: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda . or an electric car is not the same as a combustion engine, but only similar in that they are cars…
    comment by agallego · 2023-08-08 · in Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
  6. Hmm? I'm pretty sure it's written in C++. See also, their install dependencies script. https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/blob/dev/install-d...
    comment by eatonphil · 2022-10-18 · in Rewriting a high performance vector database in Rust
  7. we use it for redpanda https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda - other langs are go for k8s integration, python (dev prod tooling), ... js for ui that's mostly it.
    comment by agallego · 2022-08-12 · in Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?
  8. …). They also indicate that at some point the license will change to Apache 2 ( https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/tree/dev/licenses ); it's BSL right now likely to give them enough legal protection to keep competitors who'd operat
    comment by lostcolony · 2022-07-23 · in Kafka on Kubernetes: What could go wrong?
  9. https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda You're welcome to use it yourself and not pay us a dime. We're a business so we need to monetize but our core is to build a better Kafka. The nice thing is that if you've already invested in…
    comment by igetspam · 2022-06-14 · in Building Self-driving Kafka clusters using open source components
  10. …way i'd recommend thinking about it is a new storage engine that is compatible w/ kafka clients. https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/tree/dev/src/v/kaf... - this is basically all the kafka-related code, the rest is net-new design.
    comment by agallego · 2022-03-16 · in Go 1.18
  11. this is cool. i wanted to try this w/ redpanda (i'm a maintainer https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda ), but I didn't see it using testcontainers or docker or anything like that.
    comment by agallego · 2022-02-07 · in Workflow Script on JavaScript – Kafka adds scalability, fault tolerance for free
  12. …perhaps most importantly, it is substantially faster than Kafka. Disclosure: I work there. --- [1] https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
    comment by BeeOnRope · 2021-11-25 · in Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming [pdf]
  13. …compaction with redpanda - all the same compaction strategies you know w/ kafka work w/ redpanda. https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/tree/dev/src/v/storage - see all 'compaction_*' for deets
    comment by agallego · 2021-09-28 · in Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
  14. …service in the same vein as MemoryDB/Skyhook. [1] https://github.com/scylladb/seastar [2] https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
    comment by tomnipotent · 2021-08-20 · in Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable Database
  15. …Maybe others here disagree? https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/01/22/redpanda-kaf... https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda https://vectorized.io/
    comment by adolph · 2021-06-27 · in Starting with Kafka
  16. …there, and it will hit smaller companies the most. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/ [2] https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
    comment by the_duke · 2021-04-20 · in Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
  17. The BSL license makes choosing it "a discussion" versus using OSI licensed software: https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/tree/v21.3.7/licens... I don't have enough experience with these new vanity licenses to know what the…
    comment by mdaniel · 2021-03-31 · in Kafka without ZooKeeper
  18. that's correct - we actually don't manually write the kafka api, but we codegenerate it: https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/kafk... the tl;dr is that we wrote a pretty fast fragmented buffer parser (due to our…
    comment by agallego · 2021-02-01 · in Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)
  19. …batch. Let me explain. 1. First, we have a core-local shared chunk cache w/ DMA aligned buffers. https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/stor... 2. Second, we eagerly dispatch IO blocks w/ manual accounting of which offset…
    comment by agallego · 2020-12-13 · in Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system
  20. Oh shoot! thank you... fixing the link give me 5 mins. So currently the partition allocator - https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/clus... - is primitive. But we have a working-not-yet-exposed HTTP admin api on the…
    comment by agallego · 2020-12-12 · in Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system
  21. Kafka has `zstd` encoding. Here is our version of the streaming decoder i wrote a while ago https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/comp... that's our default for our internal RPC as well. in fact kafka protocol support…
    comment by agallego · 2020-12-12 · in Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system
  22. …becomes on how you handle decompression+checksumming+compression for supporting compacted topics. ( https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/stor... ) So single core starts to get saturated while doing both fore-ground and…
    comment by agallego · 2020-12-12 · in Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system
  23. yup compacted topics are supported. see the spill-key-index for implementation https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda/blob/dev/src/v/stor... if you are interested.
    comment by agallego · 2020-11-16 · in Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads
  24. For those eager to get a look at the code it can be found here: https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
    comment by ch · 2020-11-12 · in Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads