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.
Manufacturing
10 OUT OF 10
Manufacturing
7 OUT OF 10
Insurance
10 OUT OF 10
Telecom
8 OUT OF 10
Transportation
8 OUT OF 10
Energy and Utilities
10 OUT OF 10
High Throughput
Deliver messages at network limited throughput using a cluster of machines with latencies as low as 2ms.
Scalable
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.
Permanent Storage
Store streams of data safely in a distributed, durable, fault-tolerant cluster.
High Availability
Stretch clusters efficiently over availability zones or connect separate clusters across geographic regions.
Built-in Stream Processing
Process streams of events with joins, aggregations, filters, transformations, and more, using event-time and exactly-once processing.
Connect to almost anything
Kafka’s out-of-the-box Connect interface integrates with hundreds of event sources and event sinks including Postgres, JMS, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, and more.
Mission Critical
Support mission-critical use cases with guaranteed ordering, zero message loss, and efficient exactly-once processing.
Trusted By Thousands of Orgs
Thousands of organizations use Kafka, from internet giants to car manufacturers to stock exchanges. More than 5 million unique lifetime downloads.
Vast User Community
Kafka is one of the five most active projects of the Apache Software Foundation, with hundreds of meetups around the world.