Crucially, Kafka isn’t ACID compliant. Although it’s possible to use Kafka as a data store or to create your own version of a database, Kafka isn’t a database in and of itself.

Confluent, the data streaming provider, is unveiling the Connect with Confluent technology partner program, built for enabling Confluent partners to bring fully managed Kafka data streams directly to ...

Alternatives to Kafka include Amazon Kinesis, Apache Pulsar, Azure Stream Analytics, Confluent, and Google Cloud Dataflow. One downside of Kafka is that setting up large Kafka clusters can be tricky.

In the tutorial, we used docker to provide the Kafka broker (and ZooKeeper), Schema Registy, and Kafka Connect. We also use the Kafka Connect Datagen to create mock data to drive the application. In ...

Further here then, Kafka Connect adds to the data-layer technologies Instaclustr delivers in their pure open source versions – a move that is said to give customers an advantageous alternative ...