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title: "The VAST Event Broker"
slug: "the-vast-event-broker"
description: "The VAST Event Broker is the world’s fastest Kafka-compatible streaming engine—capable of ingesting up to one million events per second per VAST compute node."
tags: ["5.5", "Event-Broker"]
updated: 2026-11-05T19:13:40Z
published: 2026-11-05T19:13:40Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/the-vast-event-broker"
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# The VAST Event Broker

In a world where real-time action defines success, the VAST Event Broker reimagines event streaming for the AI era. Built directly into the VAST Data Platform—which unifies analytical, transactional, real-time, and vector workloads—it eliminates complexity. This unified design merges streaming, analytics, and AI in one system, empowering businesses to move faster, simplify operations, and unlock insights the moment data is created.

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VAST Event Broker: Kafka API-compatible event bus; may also be considered part of DataEngine.