Re:Kafka Spawns Open-Source KarelDB
by solatic on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:10PM
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There are companies that fit the following operational niche:
* Need to run Kafka (for domain-specific reasons)
* Need a relational database, but not necessarily a large or performant one
A project that lets you "buy a Kafka cluster, get the relational database free" is strictly simpler and cheaper to operate (in theory...) compared to operating both a Kafka cluster and a traditional relational database.
* Need to run Kafka (for domain-specific reasons)
* Need a relational database, but not necessarily a large or performant one
A project that lets you "buy a Kafka cluster, get the relational database free" is strictly simpler and cheaper to operate (in theory...) compared to operating both a Kafka cluster and a traditional relational database.