Introduction
Features
- Kafka API compatible
- Elastic stateless brokers: no more planning and reassigning partitions to a broker
- Embedded JSON Schema or Protobuf validation of messages
- Consensus free without the overhead of Raft or ZooKeeper
- All brokers are the leader and ISR of any topic partition
- All brokers are the transaction and group coordinator
- No network replication or duplicate data storage charges
- Spin up a broker for the duration of a Kafka API request: no more idle brokers
- Available with PostgreSQL, S3 or memory storage engines