Apache Kafka vs InfluxDB

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.

InfluxDB is a databases tool that time-series database purpose-built for storing and querying timestamped metrics, events, and iot data. It is open source software.