Redpanda might be good (I don't know) but I threw up a little in my mouth when I opened their website and saw "Build the Agentic Data Plane"

The marketing website of every data-related startup sounds like that now. I agree it’s dumb, but you can safely ignore it.

hehe, yeah it is. I could have probably got a GB/s out of that if I ran it properly - but it's at the scale where you expect it to be terrible due to the mismatch of workloads