Interestingly they don’t list Apache Pulsar or Splunk as a competitor yet list AWS. Splunk acquired Streamlio the people bind Pulsar in 2019 so you have to ask

Interestingly they don’t list Apache Pulsar or Splunk as a competitor yet list AWS. Splunk acquired Streamlio the people bind Pulsar in 2019 so you have to ask with the Confluent IPO what are Splunk doing with Pulsar? It is looking like a missed opportunity at this point. Pulsar is a direct replacement for Kafka. Pulsar even supports the Kafka wire protocol.