The latest feature release from the Apache Kafka stream processing community includes server support for time-based search along with more than 200 bug fixes and other improvements. Confluent Inc., ...

MapR has its own Kafka API-compatible component called MapR Event Store for Apache Kafka. In the cloud (beyond Confluent Cloud itself), there's a public preview of ...

But she warned that developers who are using the consumer Kafka API must still take steps to ensure that it works. It’s not magic pixie dust that you can just sprinkle on your apps. However, for ...

IDG. Figure 2. Confluent Kafka large-cluster architecture diagram. The diagram in Figure 3 shows a three-node Redpanda cluster, where each cluster supports the Kafka API, an HTTP proxy, the Kafka ...

Kafka is often compared to technologies like ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ for on-premises implementations, ... with the option of using a REST or Apache Kafka API (application programming interface) ...

Kafka doesn’t define a separate API for the queue and topic use cases; instead, when you start your consumer you need to specify the ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG property.

The latter is using the technology for real-time fraud protection, she said. Kafka is “an incredibly fast messaging bus” that’s good at helping to integrate lots of different types of data ...