MapR's take on things is that by offering Kafka-like functionality and API compatibility right in the distro, it enables a "converged" architecture, essentially bringing batch and streaming data ...

The platform is fully Kafka API-compatible and can work with all Kafka streaming apps and tools with no code changes necessary. Redpanda is engineered in C++ with a thread-per-core architecture that ...

Kafka as an API for log-based messaging is so widespread ... and Apicurio are natural enablers of this architecture and with the help of the various open-source asynchronous specifications are ...

“We’ve found that while organizations like the Kafka API, they are getting increasingly frustrated by its sprawling architecture and the high licensing costs required to make Kafka enterprise-read ...

Teams tasked with finding a newer solution land on an event-driven architecture ... ecosystem and instead push that data from the API to Kafka as events. This event-driven approach separates ...

Chris Latimer, VP of Product Management at DataStax, said: We’ve found that while organizations like the Kafka API, they are getting increasingly frustrated by its sprawling architecture and the high ...

The upgraded API “typically result[s] in reduced load on your streams application, your Kafka cluster, and/or downstream applications and systems such as external databases,” Gustafson added.