What is Apache Kafka?
Apache Kafka is the distributed event streaming platform. Core capabilities include high-throughput event streaming, fault-tolerant storage, and stream processing. Trust and ease of use from thousands of organizations worldwide. Originally developed at LinkedIn, now an Apache top-level project. Kafka Connect for integrations, Kafka Streams for stream processing, and ksqlDB for SQL-like queries.
Key Features
- ✓Event streaming
- ✓Pub/Sub
- ✓High throughput
- ✓Fault tolerance
- ✓Partitioning
- ✓Replication
- ✓Kafka Connect
- ✓Kafka Streams
- ✓ksqlDB
- ✓Multi-datacenter
- ✓Apache project
- ✓Confluent support
🔒 Privacy & Data Protection
Apache Kafka is fully open-source under Apache 2.0 with Apache Foundation governance. Self-hosted with complete control. For organizations needing enterprise event streaming, Kafka is the industry standard.
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💰 Pricing
Apache Kafka is completely free and open-source. Confluent offers enterprise platform and cloud service.
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