Aerospike and Redpanda have partnered to modernize real-time data management and streaming, offering a solution for organizations navigating the extensive AI/ML and data management ecosystem. Aerospike is a real-time database that can handle millions of transactions per second with sub-millisecond latency, while Redpanda is an API-compatible alternative to Kafka, designed to maximize modern hardware utilization. The two technologies complement each other, delivering real-time performance at scale at a fraction of the cost of alternative approaches, with seamless integration through Aerospike Connect, which works seamlessly with Redpanda deployments. This partnership enables organizations to build efficient streaming data architectures, ideal for applications such as data integration, event-driven architectures, telemetry and IoT, and more.