Apache Kafka
More info
- Creator
- LinkedIn (Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao)
- Released
- Owner
- Apache Software Foundation
- Type
- Distributed event streaming
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Website
- kafka.apache.org
- Source
- github.com/apache/kafka
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Distributed message log for billions of events — the foundation of many real-time systems.
Producers write, consumers read, everything is an append-only log. LinkedIn built it, then open-sourced. Competitors: RabbitMQ (queues, older), NATS (lightweight), AWS Kinesis (managed).