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# Apache Kafka

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> Apache Kafka is an open-source software designed to help businesses across transportation, IT, banking, telecom, and several other industries handle event stream processing operations. It enables IT professionals to collect data from various sources such as databases, mobile devices, sensors, and online applications in the form of streams of events.
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> Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 18 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 18 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 3.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Apache Software Foundation
- **Founded**: 2011

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing Details**: Please contact Apache Software Foundation directly for pricing details.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop)
- **Available Countries**: Germany

## Features

- API
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- Dashboard
- Data Connectors
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- Data Import/Export
- Data Mapping
- Data Storage Management
- Pre-built Connectors
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- Real-Time Data
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## Reviews

### "Reliable Data Streaming" — 5.0/5

> **Ava** | *24 September 2024* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: It is excellent for handling large-scale real-time data streams. It’s highly reliable and perfect for managing event-driven architectures.
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> **Cons**: The setup and configuration can be quite complex, especially for beginners, and requires a solid understanding of distributed systems.

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### "Good stream processing platform" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *5 April 2022* | Logistics & Supply Chain | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
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> **Pros**: Apache Kafka's stream processing capabilities allowed us to move from batch jobs to streaming data pipelines which greatly improved the freshness of our data warehouse.
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> **Cons**: It's very challenging to set up, manage, and monitor if you're not using a managed SaaS solution.
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> We used Apache Kafka to move our data integration pipelines from batch to streaming. This has given us a more efficient and cost-effective solution to keep our data warehouse up-to-date in near real-time.

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### "Kafka, my best not queue system" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *31 January 2022* | Security & Investigations | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10
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> **Pros**: The functionality of kafka is just so good, everything works fine and nothing breaks any time. also the distribution is really good
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> **Cons**: Really hard to deploy it, and maintain it. depends on a lot of things like zoopkeeper.

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### "Best for the Stream line Data Processing" — 5.0/5

> **Riya** | *27 March 2023* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It is an open source which can handle real time data, Due to its scalability and fault tolerance it is the best choice for the large amount of real time data processing. No message will be lost even in the case of software or hardware failure
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> **Cons**: It is a complex to setup for those who are new for the distributed network. It is dependent on the zoo keeper which is a single point failure.
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> It is designed to handle large volume of data with no data loss where real time data processing is allowed.It has high support and community available on the Internet.

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### "Kafka is great if it fits your use case" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *3 May 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I have usually worked in teams where kafka was already set up and managed by a dedicated team. 

It has been pretty easy to integrate new services into the existing topics and start consuming messages, there was no friction to populate the data needed in those new services.

Another aspect I liked about kafka is that integrating RBAC access to the topics was not hard at all.
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> **Cons**: The hardest part of using kafka, for me has been the operational overhead it produces, it is really time consuming and expensive to set up a cluster and start working with it, this makes me usually not choose it as a first option when starting a project because of these reasons and use instead something more lightweight like SNS/SQS or rabbit.

Using a managed solution like confluent or kinesis has greatly mitigated this issue although still this requires a monthly cost investment before your workload starts generating revenue.

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