Re:What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka
by dwenzek on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:46AM
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> Kafka is a message broker. It’s not a database and it’s not close to being a database.
Kafka is somehow a database, even if specialized on logs of events. For a similar discussion, I would refer to Jim Gray "Queues Are Databases" https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0701158.pdf.
Kafka is somehow a database, even if specialized on logs of events. For a similar discussion, I would refer to Jim Gray "Queues Are Databases" https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0701158.pdf.