There are actually two new features that the Apache Kafka community is currently working on that will help transform Kafka into an event streaming database. The first is the capability to control ...

Database technology is absolutely critical for business success. While not commonly thought of as a database, Apache Kafka, the open source stream-processing software platform, has many unique ...

Originally developed at LinkedIn, Apache Kafka is one of the most mature platforms for event streaming. Kafka is used for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration ...

Apache Kafka is messaging system built to scale for big data. Similar to Apache ActiveMQ or RabbitMq, Kafka enables applications built on different platforms to communicate via asynchronous ...

Kafka has emerged as the open source pillar of choice for managing huge torrents of events. The challenge is refining the tooling and raising the game on security beyond basic authentication.

Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That's ...

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Superficially, Kafka provides services similar to JMS or AMQP products. However, Kafka is more specifically oriented toward scenarios that typify big data systems and are ubiquitous in modern services ...

The release of Kafka 0.9, its commercial counterpart Confluent Platform 2.0, and new distro component MapR Streams, bring prominence and maturity to streaming data processing in the Hadoop ecosystem.

Aiven, a cloud-data platform based in Helsinki, has fleshed out an open-source ecosystem for Apache Kafka, a popular event-streaming platform. The new offerings promise to help enterprises ...