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| Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
| Initial release | January 2011[2] |
| Stable release | 3.9.0[3] 
/ 6 November 2024 |
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| Written in | Scala, Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Stream processing, Message broker |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | kafka |
Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Kafka can connect to external systems (for data import/export) via Kafka Connect, and provides the Kafka Streams libraries for stream processing applications. Kafka uses a binary TCP-based protocol that is optimized for efficiency and relies on a "message set" abstraction that naturally groups messages together to reduce the overhead of the network roundtrip. This "leads to larger network packets, larger sequential disk operations, contiguous memory blocks [...] which allows Kafka to turn a bursty stream of random message writes into linear writes."[4]
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