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Apache Camel vs Apache Kafka

Apache Camel
32 Ratings
Apache Kafka
97 Ratings

Apache Camel

32 Ratings
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Score 8.6 out of 100

Based on 32 reviews and ratings

Apache Kafka

97 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 100

Based on 97 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Apache Kafka is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

8.0

Apache Camel

80%
9 Ratings
9.3

Apache Kafka

93%
13 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Apache Camel

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Apache Kafka

90%
1 Rating

Usability

Apache Camel

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

Apache Kafka

100%
1 Rating

Support Rating

Apache Camel

N/A
0 Ratings
8.6

Apache Kafka

86%
7 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Apache Camel

Message brokering across different systems, with transactionality and the ability to have fine tuned control over what happens using Java (or other languages), instead of a heavy, proprietary languages.One situation that it doesn't fit very well (as far as I have experienced) is when your workflow requires significant data mapping. While possible when using Java tooling, some other visual data mapping tools in other integration frameworks are easier to work with.

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Apache Kafka

Despite the disadvantages I list, I really believe that Kafka is the right choice whenever you need a queueing or message broker system. Kafka is way too battle-tested and scales too well to ever not consider it. The only exception is if your use case requires many, many small topics. Also, Kafka doesn't support delay queues out of the box and so you will need to "hack" it through special code on the consumer side.

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Pros

Apache Camel

  • Camel has an easy learning curve. It is fairly well documented and there are about 5-6 books on Camel.
  • There is a large user group and blogs devoted to all things Camel and the developers of Camel provide quick answers and have also been very quick to patch Camel, when bugs are reported.
  • Camel integrates well with well known frameworks like Spring, and other middleware products like Apache Karaf and Servicemix.
  • There are over 150 components for the Camel framework that help integrate with diverse software platforms.
  • Camel is also good for creating microservices.

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Surjit Sen | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Apache Kafka

  • Apache Kafka is able to handle a large number of I/Os (writes) using 3-4 cheap servers.
  • It scales very well over large workloads and can handle extreme-scale deployments (eg. Linkedin with 300 billion user events each day).
  • The same Kafka setup can be used as a messaging bus, storage system or a log aggregator making it easy to maintain as one system feeding multiple applications.

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Cons

Apache Camel

  • Open source solution relies on community for support
  • Lacks graphical user interface for message routing and transformation definitions
  • Relatively steep learning curve

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Apache Kafka

  • The Kafka Tool is a community-made Java application that looks and feels from the past century.
  • Logging can be confusing. This certainly shows when we have to do troubleshooting.
  • Hybrid scenarios - pub/sub, but there are services in and outside a Kubernetes cluster. Then there are a ~3 options, but only 2 (the harder ones) are production-safe.

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Pricing Details

Apache Camel

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Apache Kafka

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Apache Camel

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Kafka is quickly becoming core product of the organization, indeed it is replacing older messaging systems. No better alternatives found yet

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Usability

Apache Camel

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Apache Kafka is highly recommended to develop loosely coupled, real-time processing applications. Also, Apache Kafka provides property based configuration. Producer, Consumer and broker contain their own separate property file

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Support Rating

Apache Camel

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka 8.6
Based on 7 answers
Support for Apache Kafka (if willing to pay) is available from Confluent that includes the same time that created Kafka at Linkedin so they know this software in and out. Moreover, Apache Kafka is well known and best practices documents and deployment scenarios are easily available for download. For example, from eBay, Linkedin, Uber, and NYTimes.

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Alternatives Considered

Apache Camel

We chose Apache Camel because it was lightweight, easy to get started with and because it had a groovy DSL since we were a grails shop when we started using it.

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Akmal Muqeeth | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Apache Kafka

We really needed to get away from using a SQL database to act as a queue for processing records, so a new solution was needed. Kafka is a leading software application initially designed for queuing messages which is essentially what we were looking for. It has a great user community and is used across the industry. We also use and trust several other products from Confluent which helped seal the decision.

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Tyler Twitchell | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Apache Camel

  • huge cost saving and quick turn around in terms of extracting data from files and integrating them to our processes
  • ease the work with java objects
  • modernizing our API services
  • ease of using it with Apache's TomCat server

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Apache Kafka

  • Kafka makes the messaging itself more reliable (as it has the distributed storage by itself and the message doesn't disappear even after it has been consumed).
  • Kafka can support a much higher volume use case, without too much extra pressure on the existed hardware.

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