Apache Kafka
Open-source distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant, and scalable data streaming. It is used by thousands of companies worldwide for real-time data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Kafka supports processing trillions of messages per day with low latency and connects to hundreds of data sources and sinks.
Kafka operates as a distributed log-based message broker where producers publish events to topics, and consumers read from those topics at scale across a cluster of brokers.
enterprise engineers and data engineers building high-performance data pipelines and streaming applications
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Apache Software Foundation
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