Data Streaming Pipelines with NATS

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Edge Data Streaming with NATS

Replace the overhead and complexity of Kafka, Kinesis, or Flink with the simplicity and flexibility of NATS. Run resilient data pipelines from cloud to edge without a PhD in distributed systems.

"NATS delivered cost savings ranging from 59% to an astounding 87% compared to Amazon Kinesis."

Jean-Noël MoyneAuthor, Comparing NATS.io with Amazon Kinesis. Field CTO, Synadia

AI/ML engineers, architects, and operators love NATS

NATS is a high-performance, open source messaging and streaming layer that runs anywhere and enables a ubiquitous data plane for your applications, services, and data.

ML Engineers

Easily build distributed applications with location transparent messaging, streaming and persistence, key-value, and object storage APIs. Skip the unnecessary complexity of using multiple tools.

Data Architects

Scale custom topologies easily. Span multiple clouds and geographies, and extend to the edge with the ability to modify your NATS deployment on the fly, without interrupting existing workloads. Avoid platform lock-in.

Platform Operators

Get complete visibility and control with built-in management, security, and monitoring tools for NATS Server—including decentralized auth for flexible, trustless access control across distributed environments.

Why more data engineering teams are choosing NATS

Discover some of the most common reasons teams select NATS as the backbone of their ubiquitous data plane.

Deep Toolbox

NATS is more than just streaming: it’s subject-based addressing to streams; data persistence with NATS JetStream; built-in Key-Value and Object Store; clients in Python, Rust, Go, JavaScript, .NET and more.

Superior Performance

NATS offers microsecond-level latency for real-time use cases, versus Kafka or Kinesis at millisecond-levels. Dynamically scale without the limits of predefined partitions or shards.

Reduced Costs

NATS requires less infrastructure and simplifies operations - no JVM to run Zookeeper, no enhanced fan out consumer (EFO) - resulting in savings of 80%+ compared to Kafka or Kinesis.

Get the full NATS data pipelines resource kit

NATS vs Kinesis Benchmarking & TCO Analysis - Evaluate NATS vs Kinesis at different message sizes, throughput levels, and consumption rates.

NATS vs Kafka Benchmarking & TCO Analysis - How does NATS stack up vs Kafka in terms of capabilities and costs? Review the detailed TCO analysis and white paper.

Tutorial: Telemetry Pipelines with NATS and Pathway - Alternatives for Apache Kafka or Flink? Get hands on with practical code examples for capturing real-time telemetry with NATS.

Watch: AI at the Edge With Nothing But NATS - Distribute AI by decoupling training and inference. Move workloads seamlessly between cloud and edge with the built-in location transparency of NATS.

Tutorial: Synadia Connect - Integrate NATS with MongoDB (or any external system). Our Wombat runtime supports many sources and sinks. Or bring or create your own custom runtime.