Ververica Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025
A New Era in Real-Time Data Streaming and AI
Forrester names Ververica a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025.
For Ververica, this recognition reflects its tremendous momentum, innovation, and its pivotal role in enabling real-time AI across industries.
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Ververica: From the Creator of Apache Flink® to a Leader in Real-Time AI
Founded by the original creators of Apache Flink, Ververica continues to shape the streaming data landscape and define what’s next for real-time computing.
In this 2025 Forrester Wave, the analyst firm notes that “[Ververica’s] focus on optimizing Flink for performance and scalability drives adoption among organizations seeking flexible, high-throughput streaming solutions,” also acknowledging that, “It offers deployments across on-premises, public cloud, and bring-your- own-cloud environments.”
“Ververica stands out with a robust Apache Flink core that equips enterprises to handle large-scale, real-time data workloads with high efficiency and scalability.”
— Forrester Research, The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025
By transforming continuous data flows into actionable insights, Ververica gives enterprises the infrastructure they need to bring real-time AI to life. This includes instant decision-making systems and adaptive AI agents that learn and act on live data.
Recognized for Strategy, Capabilities, and Customer Impact
Ververica earned the highest possible scores in seven criteria, including Innovation, which we see as a reflection of our commitment to delivering next-generation real-time infrastructure for modern enterprises.
Key findings on Ververica from the Forrester evaluation include:
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Strong strategic vision: Ververica enables enterprises to build real-time analytics and AI-driven applications across diverse deployment models.
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Advanced capabilities: The platform’s high-throughput streaming engine and resource optimization support the most demanding data and AI workloads.
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Customer trust: Users highlight Ververica’s performance, reliability, and strong integration with Apache Flink for real-time data processing.
“Ververica is a great fit for enterprises that wish to implement Apache Flink for advanced real-time data processing and analytics via a variety of deployment options.”
Accelerating Real-Time AI for the Enterprise
We believe Ververica’s focus on performance, flexibility, and enterprise readiness sets a new benchmark in the streaming data platform category. Our continued investments in our Unified Streaming Data Platform ensure that organizations can power their most demanding real-time use cases. As AI systems evolve to operate continuously and autonomously, real-time data streaming becomes the connective tissue that keeps them accurate, responsive, and contextual.
To us, this position as a leader underscores what our customers already know: Ververica delivers the most powerful, scalable, and production-ready streaming data platform available today.
Ververica’s platform powers this new generation of real-time AI by delivering:
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Streaming-native intelligence: Data pipelines that adapt instantly to events, powering AI models with live, accurate context.
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Performance at scale: Industry-leading throughput and latency optimized for continuous inference and learning.
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Unified architecture: One platform to manage, process, and act on data streams across applications, analytics, and AI systems.
From fraud detection and IoT analytics to decision automation and agentic AI, Ververica provides the performance and reliability that modern enterprises need to make AI truly real-time.
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