Name: Apache Kafka
Rating: 9.1 (100 reviews)
Author: Apache

Apache Kafka

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Recent Reviews

Kafka: Best Streaming Platform on the Market

10 out of 10

January 23, 2022

Apache Kafka is the most powerful and scalable streaming framework on the market. We have used Apache Kafka as a part of many real-time …

Apache Kafka is awesome! Tricky sometimes, but we love it!

8 out of 10

January 21, 2022

Kafka is an event streaming platform and this is exactly the purpose we use it for in our company. Application data-in-transit goes into …

Kafka events; helping your company work with data

9 out of 10

January 06, 2022

We use Kafka as the queuing mechanism for records in an indexing pipeline. Previous to using Kafka we were working with tables in SQL …

Apache Kafka - a must have tool for distributed toolkit

10 out of 10

December 06, 2021

My application was dependent on other applications to generate data and those data were needed to be processed immediately. And, processed …

Kafka is an excellent tool for data integration!

10 out of 10

November 08, 2021

Kafka is being used for our IoT data flows as the middle layer to transport data and make it available for consumption. We are …

Apache Kafka for your Data solutions

10 out of 10

August 07, 2021

It is being used for the product mainly. We have huge data pipelines running which depend on Apache Kafka. It is being used for more than …

Excellent tech to manage short messages with high frequency

10 out of 10

July 11, 2021

Kafka is being used for sending log information in real time and there[fore] can monitor apps and send these events to feed other apps. …

Apache Kafka: Where messaging meets storage

7 out of 10

April 09, 2021

Apache Kafka is used by our company as the "next generation" of messaging/data-streaming pipeline solutions, to replace our old legacy …

Apache Kafka open source stream processing software

9 out of 10

March 23, 2020

We used it for event logging. It was used for application log collection. Was used with exception tracking and with core microservices of …

Apache Kafka for large scale message ingestion

10 out of 10

November 07, 2019

Apache Kafka is used as a stream/message ingestion engine for all the customer-facing apps including some internal streams company-wide. …

Battle-tested, de facto option for message broker

9 out of 10

November 06, 2019

We use Kafka for two key features: (1) keeping a buffer of all the incoming records that need to be stored in our data infrastructure, and …

Kafka quick queue

8 out of 10

January 30, 2019

We are using Kafka as an ingress and egress queue for data being saved into a big data system. Kafka is also being used as a queue for …

Apache Kafka, the F1 of messaging

9 out of 10

March 01, 2018

Apache Kafka is becoming the new standard for messaging at our organization. Originally we limited the use to big data environments and …

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Real time streaming
Management tools

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

Quick data transfer - regardless of volume (if you have enough resources)
The Kafka Tool is a community-made Java application that looks and feels from the past century.

Borislav Traykov

DevOps Team Leader

Cognyte (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

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Apache Kafka is an open-source stream processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala and Java. The Kafka event streaming platform is used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical…

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