Varun K.
VK
Varun K.
Senior Technical Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Review Kafka"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

Low Latency , High Through put and replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

Apache Kafka does not support wildcard topic selection. Instead, it matches only the exact topic name. It is because selecting wildcard topics make it incapable to address certain use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
UT
Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Apache kafka for Real time data"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

It supports a new era of real time architecture and reducing the wait time in data availability. Also, its a very trending hot topic now a days so definitely it's easier to get helpful documents that may help during integration with our application. With above it is distributed, consumer friendly, batch handling capability etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

I dislike most about it is lack of complete set of monitoring and management tools. Also message tweakings may reduce its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shivam A.
SA
Shivam A.
Software Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great tool to build event based systems"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

Scalability and reliability of the product is impressive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

Dynamically changing of partition is feature that i am expecting and it is not there . This is a thing that i dislike . Moreover documentation can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sibaprasad T.
ST
Sibaprasad T.
Senior Engineer Devops
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A powerful tool for message brokerage!!!"
4/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

Firstly being used old age solutions like IBM MQ nand Message Broker I must say it's mush easier to use plus it's dynamic with vast ecosystem of connectors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

The product support can be slightly better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swapnil G.
SG
Swapnil G.
Technical Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Kafka : A high capacity component"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

High throughput, Multi-instance, Kafka Connect API Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

Confluent's version of Kafka because the UI is too bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"I used apache kafka in our queuing engine for sending messages in microservices architecture."
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

The best thing about apache kafka is its index maintainable structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

I didn’t find any within my requirement.

Just that if I could get 247 support for best installation and runtime problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Backend software engineer"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

The most fastest message broker and stable solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

If you have monitoring tool for topic, it would be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
UL
Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Java developer, work with microservices and kafka"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

Kafka keep the messages for a period time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

Some minor errors that hard to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
UC
Verified User in Computer & Network Security
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"You first and last message queue"
5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

Clean design and doc, big open source community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

Hard to debug problems sometimes and performance issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

vivek s.
VS
vivek s.
Principal Application Developer
Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great product must for modern integrations"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Apache Kafka?

Fast , redundancy

Scalable

Publisher subscriber based

Replaces ETL

Support in industry

Industry standard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Kafka?

Learning curve is high

Concept needs deep understanding

Debug capability’s

Error handling is obscure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.