Here’s the Deal
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When comparing NATS vs Kafka, the Slant community recommends NATS for most people. In the question“What are the best message queue servers?” NATS is ranked 2nd while Kafka is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose NATS is:
Free and open source.
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Pros
Pro Free
Free and open source.
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.
Cons
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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