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Apache Kafka
Fast, scalable, durable, and fault-tolerant publish-subscribe messaging system. Kafka is often used in place of traditional message brokers like JMS and AMQP because of its higher throughput, reliability and replication.
| First released | 2011 |
| Developed by | Apache Software Foundation |
| Latest stable version | 3.1.0 |
| Open-source | Not defined |
Interesting facts
Apache Kafka supports a wide range of use cases as a general-purpose messaging system for scenarios where high throughput, reliable delivery, and horizontal scalability are important.