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Re:GCP and Confluent partner to deliver a managed Apache Kaf... by Ezku on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:27AM (#17132006)
For me, the best way to think about Kafka is as a distributed log. That said, it does feature rather robust transformations of log entries - does KSQL count as ”queries or whatever”? https://www.confluent.io/product/ksql/
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Re:GCP and Confluent partner to deliver a managed Apache Kaf... by techno_modus on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:13AM (#17132219)
As far as I understand, KSQL is not integral part of Kafka - it is based on Kafka Streams (an independent library). So Kafka is not one system and hence some ambiguity when referring to its functionalities. In particular, "Kafka is as a distributed log" means only Kafka core, not Kafka Streams and KSQL.
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