Apache Kafka Description

Apache Kafka® is a robust, open-source platform designed for distributed streaming. It can scale production environments to accommodate up to a thousand brokers, handling trillions of messages daily and managing petabytes of data with hundreds of thousands of partitions. The system allows for elastic growth and reduction of both storage and processing capabilities. Furthermore, it enables efficient cluster expansion across availability zones or facilitates the interconnection of distinct clusters across various geographic locations. Users can process event streams through features such as joins, aggregations, filters, transformations, and more, all while utilizing event-time and exactly-once processing guarantees. Kafka's built-in Connect interface seamlessly integrates with a wide range of event sources and sinks, including Postgres, JMS, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, among others. Additionally, developers can read, write, and manipulate event streams using a diverse selection of programming languages, enhancing the platform's versatility and accessibility. This extensive support for various integrations and programming environments makes Kafka a powerful tool for modern data architectures.

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Company Details

Company:
The Apache Software Foundation
Year Founded:
1999
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
kafka.apache.org

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Apache Kafka Features and Options

Message Queue Software

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Storage / Retrieval / Deletion
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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software Developer
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
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    Great Platform for Distributed Streaming

    Date: Jul 09 2020

    Summary: Apache Kafka is a highly versatile service that can be used as a data streaming platform, a message broker service, a log aggregator and many more use cases.

    Positive: Good performance
    Excellent scaling capability & fault tolerance
    Handles real time data pipelines
    Can be used as a message broker service as well
    Can be used in a variety of use cases

    Negative: It is an advanced solution so it takes time and learning to deploy and use. Not very beginner friendly.

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