When to Use StreamForge

Choose StreamForge When You Need

• selective replication to analytics or lake pipelines
• field-level filtering and transformation
• PII-safe replication to lower-trust environments
• a lighter operational footprint than Kafka Connect

Choose MirrorMaker 2 When You Need

• active-active replication
• consumer offset synchronization
• topic and ACL mirroring
• Kafka Connect ecosystem integration

Choose Arroyo When You Need

• stateful streaming SQL
• joins and richer window semantics
• a general stream processing engine

Positioning Rule

Good claim:

• StreamForge is more capable than MirrorMaker 2 for selective replication and data shaping.

Bad claim:

• Any phrasing that frames StreamForge as a universal MirrorMaker 2 replacement.