Apache Kafka vs Azure Cosmos DB

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.

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service by Microsoft offering single-digit millisecond latency and 99.999% availability SLA. It supports document, key-value, graph, and column-family data models with multiple API options.