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Choose the Right Data Streaming Platform.
Most platforms focus on streaming data, Condense focuses on understanding it. It’s not just managed Kafka; it’s Kafka with context. Infused with domain intelligence, Condense transforms raw streams into decisions, automations, and impact, because the right Kafka platform should understand what it’s moving
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How does Condense compare against Solace?
TL;DR
Condense and Solace PubSub+ represent the choice between an integrated execution environment and a distributed messaging mesh. Solace is a high-performance event broker designed for "wire-speed" routing and protocol interoperability across global networks, but it remains a transport layer that requires the construction and integration of separate external microservices to process data. Condense is a unified execution fabric that merges the streaming engine with a native app runtime, enabling the deployment of business logic, custom connectors, and transformation frameworks directly within customer cloud without the operational burden of managing external "glue code" or separate processing clusters.
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Condense: The Vertical Data Platform for Real-Time Businesses
Accelerate the path from idea to production
Rapidly realize and deploy industry use cases
Enterprise scale with native governance
Optimize TCO through vertical industry-first approach
Why Switch to Condense?
Transition from Message Routing to Application Execution
Solace is an elite "Event Mesh" designed to route packets across global environments at wire-speed. However, it remains a transport layer; to process or transform data, external microservices or lambda functions must be built and integrated.
Autonomous Full-Stack
Scaling
In Solace architecture, scaling is focused on the message broker and its capacity to handle concurrent connections. If the external applications processing those messages start to lag during a traffic spike, manual intervention or complex auto-scaling rules for separate compute clusters are required.
Condense introduces Autonomous Scaling for the entire pipeline. It monitors real-time consumer lag and throughput at the event level. When data volume surges, the platform automatically provisions compute for custom Java, Python, or Go transforms. This ensures processing power stays in sync with data volume and automatically scales back down to optimize costs once the surge passes.
Native Private Cloud Sovereignty (BYOC)
Condense is engineered for 100% BYOC Native deployment. It deploys directly into a customer cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP), keeping 100% of the data plane and the execution logic within the owner's control. This setup inherits existing IAM policies and security groups while allowing the use of existing cloud enterprise credits for the underlying compute and storage.
Vertical Intelligence vs. General-Purpose Mesh
Solace is a horizontal routing tool, meaning it treats every message as an agnostic payload. All industry-specific logic, such as decoding telematics or calculating driver behavior must be built from scratch in external applications.
Condense provides a Verticalized Ecosystem. It includes a library of domain-aware transforms specifically for industries like Mobility (e.g., VIN parsing, trip decoding) and IoT. By utilizing these pre-tuned assets and the Custom Transform Framework, teams bypass months of custom development and move from prototype to production significantly faster.
Unified Developer Experience with Integrated IDE
In Solace environment, the developer experience is fragmented; routing is configured in one place, while processing logic is coded, containerized, and deployed in another.
Condense embeds an Integrated AI-Powered IDE directly into the platform. Developers can build, test, and deploy custom connectors and production transforms natively. This environment includes agentic AI for root-cause analysis and automated rebalancing, significantly reducing the manual operational effort required to maintain healthy, high-throughput pipelines.
