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Streamkap vs Airbyte

Airbyte is great for batch ETL. Streamkap is purpose-built for real-time streaming.

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Infrastructure

Fully managed, no clusters to run

Real-time
Streaming

True CDC vs scheduled syncs

Built-in
Transforms

SQL transforms included

Feature Comparison

Feature
Streamkap
Airbyte
Deployment
Fully managed SaaS
Self-hosted or Cloud
Data Latency
Sub-second
Minutes to hours
CDC Support
Native log-based CDC
Limited CDC connectors
Stream Processing
SQL transforms built-in
DBT integration
Kafka
Included
Not included
Infrastructure
Zero management
Kubernetes required
Pricing
Usage-based
Free (self-hosted) or usage

Choose Streamkap if you need:

  • Real-time CDC requirements
  • Teams avoiding infrastructure management
  • Kafka-based architectures
  • Sub-second latency needs
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Consider Airbyte if you need:

  • Budget-conscious batch workloads
  • Teams with Kubernetes expertise
  • Wide connector variety needs
  • DBT-centric workflows
"Compared to our old tool, if one small thing happened, it would just completely break. On top of that, the cost that we have in Snowflake now for loading data on Streamkap is like next to nothing."
John Michael Mizerany
Senior Software Engineer, Fleetio
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