Benthos

Benthos: Open Source Stream Processors

Benthos is an open source stream processor that connects various data sources and sinks to transform and route data streams. It is lightweight, fast, and reliable for moving data between message queues, databases, APIs, and more.

What is Benthos?

Benthos is an open source stream processor designed to connect various data sources and sinks in order to transform and route data streams between them. Some key features and benefits of Benthos include:

• Lightweight and high performance - Benthos is built with speed and efficiency in mind, able to process high volume data streams across various data sources and sinks.
• Reliable delivery guarantees - Provides confirmation of message delivery across data streams with configurable retry policies, error handling, and more to ensure no messages are lost.
• Extensive plugin ecosystem - Includes over 50 input, output, cache, and processor plugin types out of the box, with ability to create custom plugins for proprietary systems.
• Dynamic stream configuration - Streams can be created, modified, and destroyed dynamically through Benthos's APIs and configuration files.
• Easy to deploy and scale - Benthos has small resource requirements so can scale up through clusters of Benthos brokers. Deploys easily via Docker, Kubernetes, binaries, etc.

Some common use cases for Benthos include: real-time data ETL and synchronization; log and metrics data aggregation; asynchronous task queues and communications; and more. Its flexibility makes it great for modern data streaming architectures.

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