Apache KafkaPricing

this company, I can only say without Apache Kafka, my company would not be cost-efficient and would be much more costlier to sell to customers if we were

are for example, where pricing is an issue. The solution costs quite a lot for basic usage (for example: for 3 clusters, pricing is above 100k$ a year)

Kafka is simple and lower in price.

not depend on memory, works well on rotational disks and that makes it a cheaper to use solution on low hardware requirements. Running multiple consumers

Apps with data available faster Minimize charge process Data replication with lag minor than 5 s

tracking and with core microservices of the web application. It helped us reduce cost and simplified operational monitoring. … Simplified logging. Reduced monitoring costs. Not expensive.

queue ). It is open-source so there are no licenses or subscription fees reducing the cost of deployment. Data can now be ingested and analyzed in real-time … 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 … Confluent Cloud is still based on Apache Kafka…

of the cost other solutions do and it has the flexibility of open source scenarios. … Easier deployment and horizontal scalability Messaging cost reduction