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Re:Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times by qaq on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:52AM (#15190589)
id uuid ts timestsmp data jsonb

solved it for you :) and thats will have ACID and all the other features of RDBMS that kafka does not have. It will also allow you to create transactionally consistent "views" representing whatever you need implemented in a few lines of SQL vs complex standalone services.

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Re:Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times by manish_gill on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:01AM (#15226034)
Not quite. The JSON overhead can become quite problematic. Not to mention, Postgres's JSON support isn't where I'd like it to be. :(
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Re:Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times by qaq on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:01PM (#15250699)
What features are you missing?
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