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7 Recommendations
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Kafka Review

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Review of Kafka powered by the Slant community.

Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log.

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Pros

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Slimothy

Pro
Optimized for performance

Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.

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Slimothy

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Native mirroring support

Kafka has native support for mirroring.

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Pro
Native compression support

Kafka has native support for compression.

Cons

Ray
JamiTaggart

Con
Java is a resource hog

Java is a resource hog, making this far too slow unless you have money to throw at multiple servers with 1/2TB of ram.

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Łukasz Jan Niemier

Con
Need Zookeeper

Kafka can only work with Zookeeper

Commonly Compared

Kafka
vs
Raygun
7 Recommendations
RabbitMQ
54 Recommendations
Sentry
70 Recommendations
Flume
4 Recommendations
Snare
1 Recommendations
Rsyslog
14 Recommendations
Fluentd
22 Recommendations
Timber
15 Recommendations
Logentries
101 Recommendations
Logstash
57 Recommendations
Scribe
6 Recommendations
MindArray IPM
2 Recommendations
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