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Pravega

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About Pravega

Pravega provides a storage abstraction called a stream for continuously generated and unbounded data. A Pravega stream stores unbounded parallel sequences of bytes in a durable, elastic and consistent manner while tiering data to scale-out storage. It provides a cloud-native streaming infrastructure. Pravega streams natively support long-term data retention. It handles both small events as in IoT and larger data such as video. Pravega also enables replicating application state and storing key-value pairs.

Used for

  • Detecting predictive maintenance needs for IoT devices such as wind turbines
  • Processing billable events for real-time billing
  • Analyzing streaming data for real-time cybersecurity threat detection
  • Using Pravega Transactions to ensure a set of events are written to a stream atomically
  • Building pipelines of data processing combining batch, real-time and other applications

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How to evaluate Streaming & Real-Time Analytics

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Pravega. It comes from our Streaming Data & Event Processing buyer guide.

25%
Throughput, Latency & Durability
Sustained throughput and tail latency at your partition count, ordering and exactly-once / at-least-once delivery guarantees, replication and multi-AZ durability, retention limits, and behavior under broker failure and rebalancing
20%
Operating Model & Architecture
Self-managed vs. fully managed vs. serverless vs. bring-your-own-cloud, KRaft (post-ZooKeeper) operations, diskless / object-storage-backed options, autoscaling, partition rebalancing, and upgrade and patching burden on your team
20%
Kafka-API Compatibility & Portability
Fidelity of the Kafka protocol (consumer groups, transactions, compaction), reuse of existing clients, connectors and tooling, lock-in to a single cloud, and the realistic effort to migrate in or out
15%
Stream Processing & Ecosystem
Native or integrated processing (Flink, Kafka Streams, Spark Structured Streaming, ksqlDB), connector catalog (CDC, sinks, sources), schema registry and governance, and direct landing into Iceberg / Delta lakehouse tables
10%
Security, Governance & Compliance
Encryption in transit and at rest, mTLS / SASL / OAuth and RBAC, audit logging, private networking, data residency and BYOC data-boundary control, and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR coverage
10%
Cost Model & Economics at Scale
Pricing unit (capacity / throughput / consumption), inter-AZ and egress charges, storage and retention cost, processing billed separately, and how the bill behaves as volume, partitions, and connectors grow

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