Kafka under your control

Event streaming for enterprises

Run governed Kafka across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments without giving up control of your data.

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What can you do with Axual Streaming?

Deploy where you want

Run enterprise Kafka with a built-in schema registry on-premises, in the cloud, or across both, without compromising regulatory, latency, or sovereignty requirements.

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You get:

  • Flexible deployment: On-premises, cloud, or hybrid on the same platform
  • European data sovereignty: Your streams stay in your jurisdiction by design
  • No forced trade-offs: Modern streaming infrastructure without giving up control

Control exactly who touches the data

Kafka gives you the primitives. Axual gives you the controls enterprise architects actually need: mTLS, SASL, and OAuth authentication, plus multi-tenant access control that scales across teams and environments.

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You get:

  • Enterprise-grade access control enforced at the governance and broker level
  • No bypass routes even for privileged users
  • Granular visibility into who can access which streams

Integrate every system

Production proven Kafka Connect integrations support databases, queues, cloud storage, mainframes, and legacy protocols.

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You get:

  • A connector ecosystem tested in mission-critical deployments
  • Legacy system support, not just the "convenient" modern integrations
  • Simplified operations, with deployment and scaling handled for you

Kafka that scales:
Platform capabilities

DIY Kafka works until it doesn’t. Axual Streaming provides the operational stability, governance, and performance enterprise architects need not just at launch.

Capability
What it means
High availability architecture
Geo-distributed clusters with continuous sync; automatic failover with near-zero RPO and RTO measured in seconds.
Predictable performance
Tested configurations that hold consistent latency under variable load, proven at billions of events per day.
Dynamic resource management
Scale compute and storage independently; automated rebalancing, no manual workflows.
Standards-based implementation
Full Apache Kafka compatibility with Strimzi setup and no vendor lock-in.
Multi-tenancy with isolation
Logical separation between teams and projects on shared infrastructure, with resource quotas.

Our event driven platform architecture

Active-active resilience

Replication that actually goes both ways

Most Kafka replication tools move data one direction. The Axual Distributor synchronizes messages, schemas, and consumer offsets between clusters in near real time enabling active-active resilience, not just one-way backups.

Use it to:
Run active-active architectures across regions
Migrate from DIY Kafka to Axual without downtime
Move between cloud providers or Kafka versions without disrupting production

"By having access to this real-time data, Eneco can use its data flexibly to help the organization and its customers even better."

Iem Smid
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"Data governance is critical at Rabobank. With Axual, we are able to see who has permission, who owns the data, or if the owner has given permission, and what the structure of the messages are."

Vincent Oostindle
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“We were at a crossroads, with legacy technology preventing a solid digital transformation, and an ambitious strategy for customer centricity underlining requirements for becoming data-driven. We really needed the Axual platform to allow us to make the leap.”

Roger Stoffers
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Why enterprises choose the Axual platform

Instant disaster recovery

Prevent data loss and manual recovery with automated failover and synchronized consumer offsets.

European data sovereignty

Keep data under your jurisdiction while meeting GDPR and sector requirements.

Open, standards based architecture

Avoid vendor lock in with Apache Kafka at the core, across on premises and multicloud environments.

Kafka use cases by sector

Industry solutions for event streaming

Discover why Europe's energy companies, financial services firms, and government agencies rely on Axual for mission-critical operations.

Energy

Grid stability, data exchange, and mission-critical reliability from a proven data streaming architecture that's trusted by leading TSOs, DSOs, and utility companies.

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Healthcare

Control and compliance healthcare demands for critical clinical systems integration, patient monitoring, health information exchange, and population health analytics.

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Government

Axual bridges the gap between real-time services and complete governance with secure data streaming for modern government infrastructure.

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Frequently asked questions

How does the Distributor differ from standard Kafka MirrorMaker?

The Distributor replicates bi-directionally with consumer offset sync — MirrorMaker doesn't. If your primary cluster fails, applications reconnecting elsewhere resume exactly where they left off: no duplicate processing, no gaps.

Should we build our own Kafka platform or buy one?

Building the governance, self-service, and security layer on top of Kafka in-house takes significant time and specialist skills, and then has to be maintained. Logius estimated 20 to 24 months to build it themselves; with Axual, they went live in months.

What access control does Axual add on top of basic Kafka ACLs?

mTLS and SASL authentication, plus OAuth/OIDC integration with your existing identity provider — giving you role-based access from topic ownership down to granular produce/consume permissions, enforced with no bypass routes.

What makes self-hosted Kafka hard to run and how does Axual reduce that?

Self-managed Kafka is fine in a proof-of-concept but strains under compliance audits and zero-downtime upgrade requirements. Axual automates rolling upgrades, partition rebalancing, and security patching so operations don’t interrupt production.

What is the difference between Apache Kafka and an event streaming platform?

Apache Kafka is the open-source engine that moves and stores event streams. An enterprise platform like Axual adds what organisations need to run it safely across many teams: ownership of streams, approval workflows, schema validation, access control, multi-tenancy, and audit history. Axual keeps Kafka itself open-source, so you get the governance layer without lock-in.

Does Axual support legacy systems, not just modern cloud integrations?

Yes. Axual's connectors cover mainframes, legacy databases, and industry-specific protocols — the systems that often hold your most mission-critical data but that cloud-only platforms don't prioritize.

What is enterprise data streaming?

Enterprise data streaming means sharing data across an organisation continuously, as events happen, instead of in scheduled batches. Systems publish changes once, and every authorised application can use them in real time. At enterprise scale, that requires more than Kafka alone: governance, security, self-service for teams, and an audit history of who uses which data.

What does "European data sovereignty by design" actually mean?

Your event streams never leave your specified jurisdiction — not for processing, management, or support. It's built into the architecture, not offered as a configurable option.

Why does Kafka compatibility matter when choosing a streaming platform?

Standards-based compatibility means your producers and consumers keep working regardless of vendor or deployment changes — critical when regulation forces data repatriation or a merger forces infrastructure consolidation.