Re:I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit abo...
by EdwardDiego on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:52PM
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To be very clear, Confluent doesn't give _their_ product away for free. Confluent Platform has many differing features to Apache Kafka that never make it into upstream.
E.g., Confluent Replicator vs. Mirror Maker 2, Confluent Platform's tiered storage has been available for quite some time (right now a bunch of people from AirBnB are doing a stellar job bringing tiered storage to FOSS Kafka, I'm hoping 3.1 or 3.2).
Actually, easiest thing to do to see the differences is grep all the subpages of this link for properties that start with "confluent":
E.g., Confluent Replicator vs. Mirror Maker 2, Confluent Platform's tiered storage has been available for quite some time (right now a bunch of people from AirBnB are doing a stellar job bringing tiered storage to FOSS Kafka, I'm hoping 3.1 or 3.2).
Actually, easiest thing to do to see the differences is grep all the subpages of this link for properties that start with "confluent":
https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/conf...