Apache Kafka vs ArangoDB

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. Originally developed at LinkedIn, it provides high-throughput, fault-tolerant publish-subscribe messaging with persistent storage. Kafka supports stream processing through Kafka Streams and ksqlDB.

ArangoDB is an open-source multi-model database that combines document, graph, and key-value data models in a single engine. It uses AQL (ArangoDB Query Language) for querying across all data models and supports distributed deployments.