Memphis
A scalable message broker and data streaming platform for building event-driven features
- Also known as
- memphis
What is Memphis?
Memphis is an open-source message broker and data streaming platform designed for backend developers. It provides production-ready message brokering with features like schema management, dead-letter queues, stream processing functions, and support for multiple programming languages.
Memphis pricing
We don't have Memphis's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Memphis does
The capabilities that matter for message queues, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Messaging paradigm
- Queue
- Delivery guarantee
- At-least-once
- Ordering guarantee
- Per-partition
- Durable replayable log
- ✓
- Message replay / rewind
- ✓
- Wire protocol
- -
- Kafka-protocol compatible
- -
- Partitioned horizontal scaling
- ✓
- Geo / cross-region replication
- -
- Consumer groups / competing consumers
- ✓
- Dead-letter queue
- ✓
- Managed cloud offering exists
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Built-in stream processing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Memphis alternatives
Other message queues we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Confluent CloudA fully managed, serverless cloud platform for Apache Kafka enabling real-time data streaming, processing, and integration at any scalemedium · 73%
- WarpStreamA Kafka-compatible data streaming platform that drastically reduces infrastructure costs while combining cloud convenience with on-premises control.medium · 62%
- TemporalAn open-source platform for building fault-tolerant applications that automatically preserve and recover application state across failures.high · 76%
- NATSCloud-native unified messaging and streaming system for distributed applications, from cloud to edgemedium · 58%
- RabbitMQA reliable message broker for distributed systems supporting multiple messaging protocolslow · 47%
- RedpandaApache Kafka-compatible streaming platform for building real-time data applicationsmedium · 58%
Compare Memphis
Side by side against other message queues, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Memphis, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.06 | 5.5 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 88 | 0.05 | 4.6 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Stars | 67 | 0.03 | 1.7 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 0 | mediumsource · 2026-10-14 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: both · Ordering: per_partition · Paradigm: queue · Message replay: Yes · Persistent log: Yes · Consumer groups: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-14 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-10-14 · 90% |
Pricing
Release
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=memphis%2Fmemphis&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-10-14 · 90% |
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