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Apache Kafka

An open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

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Overview

Kafka combines three key capabilities: publishing and subscribing to streams of records, storing streams of records in a fault-tolerant durable way, and processing streams of records as they occur.

Core Concepts

  • Producer: Sends data to Kafka.
  • Consumer: Reads data from Kafka.
  • Topic: A category or feed name to which records are published.
  • Broker: A Kafka server.

Related Terms

Apache FlinkData IntegrationBig Data