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Amazon SQS vs Kafka
When comparing Amazon SQS vs Kafka, the Slant community recommends Kafka for most people. In the question“What are the best message queue servers?” Kafka is ranked 4th while Amazon SQS is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Kafka is:
Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.
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Pro Optimized for performance
Kafka is optimized for supporting a huge number of users.
Pro Native mirroring support
Kafka has native support for mirroring.
Pro Native compression support
Kafka has native support for compression.
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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.
Con Need Zookeeper
Kafka can only work with Zookeeper