Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Scale production clusters up to a thousand brokers, trillions of messages per day, petabytes of data, hundreds of thousands of partitions. Elastically expand and contract storage and processing.
Basic Information
- Category: Data Streaming
- Founded: 2011
- Headquarters: Remote
- Website: kafka.apache.org
Documented Facts
- Email: dev@kafka.apache.org
Evidence and Sources
- Apache Kafka — Official Site (official)
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