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Re:Issues we've encountered while building a Kafka based dat... by gilbetron on Monday October 18, 2021 @09:35AM (#28905291)
What velocity have you achieved with postgres, in terms of # messages/sec where messages could range between 1KB-100KB in size?
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Re:Issues we've encountered while building a Kafka based dat... by lima on Monday October 18, 2021 @09:56AM (#28905471)
Yup. That's what Kafka excels at and where it scales to throughput way beyond Postgres.

But there are many many projects where Kafka is used for low value event sourcing stuff where a SQL DB could be easier.

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