Ursa Engine — Lakehouse-Native Streaming for Kafka and Pulsar

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Built for Kafka & Pulsar

Native Kafka and Pulsar — zero code changes.

10x Lower Cost

No disks, no replicas, no cross-zone traffic.

Lakehouse-Native

Direct storage in Iceberg and Delta Lake.

KEY BENEFITS

Focus on Using Data, Not Managing Infrastructure

Skip the hassle of traditional data streaming and let Ursa do the heavy lifting. Here are 5 big "NO" items you avoid with Ursa:

No Inter-AZ Data Transfer

Minimal overhead, simpler networking.

No Disks to Manage

No hardware to baby-sit.

No Overprovisioning

Pay only for what you use.

No Connectors

No messy ETL pipelines.

No Data Duplication

One copy for all your needs.

ARCHITECTURE

The Pillars of the Ursa Engine

Ursa is a lakehouse-native streaming engine that decouples compute from storage to eliminate bottlenecks and cross-zone costs.

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Leaderless Architecture

Eliminates cross-AZ replication and leader elections—cutting network spend while improving resilience and recovery.

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