Apache Kafka
data_infra
Overview
Developed byLinkedIn
Maintained byApache Software Foundation
Founded2010
LicenseApache License 2.0
Open source✓ Open Source
Primary languageJava
Use casedistributed event streaming for real-time data pipelines and integration
Technical
Protocols
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Avg confidence94%
Avg freshness100%
Last updatedUpdated 21 days ago
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Apache Kafka
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Distributed event streaming platform used for real-time data pipelines
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| free open source | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
license type
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| Apache License 2.0 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Apache 2.0 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
maintained by
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| Apache Software Foundation | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
integrates with
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| ClickHouse | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Databricks | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Apache Flink | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Apache Spark | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Elasticsearch | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
| Apache Storm | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
programming language
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| Java | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
primary use case
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| distributed event streaming for real-time data pipelines and integration | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| distributed event streaming | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| real-time data pipelines | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| real-time data streaming | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| distributed streaming platform | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
open source
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based on
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requires
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| Java Virtual Machine | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Apache ZooKeeper | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
developed by
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written in
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| Scala | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Java | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
founded year
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supports protocol
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| TCP | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
competes with
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| Apache Pulsar | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
| Amazon Kinesis | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
| Apache ActiveMQ | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
| RabbitMQ | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
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