Self-hosted / open sourceData Platform & WarehouseHeadquarters: US

Apache StreamPipes: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Apache StreamPipes is an open-source industrial IoT data platform that lets non-technical users connect, analyse and explore streams of machine data through a web interface. It includes adapters for industrial protocols such as OPC UA, S7, Modbus and MQTT, a toolbox of real-time processors, and SDKs for Java, Python and TypeScript. It is deployed with Docker or Kubernetes on the operator's own infrastructure and is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, as an open alternative to proprietary industrial IoT data tools.

The project is developed under the Apache Software Foundation, a US 501(c)(3) non-profit, so it is governed from the United States although the software itself is open. Industrial sites often keep operational data on their own premises, which fits a self-hosted deployment. For a European manufacturer the sovereignty question is therefore less about a vendor's jurisdiction and more about whether plant data, connectors and backups stay under the operator's control.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Data Platform & Warehouse
Type	Product
Website	streampipes.apache.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Apache StreamPipes

The European alternatives to Apache StreamPipes come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Apache StreamPipes

Apache StreamPipes is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Apache StreamPipes hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Apache StreamPipes is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Apache StreamPipes together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Apache StreamPipes?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Apache StreamPipes include AxonIQ, DuckDB and Eclipse Dataspace Components. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Apache StreamPipes?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Apache StreamPipes include DuckDB, Eclipse Dataspace Components, Eclipse Tractus-X and Garage. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Apache StreamPipes GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Apache StreamPipes is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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