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Apache Kafka

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.

kafka.apache.orgby Apache Software Foundation2011FreeOpen Source
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CompanyApache Software Foundation
Year Launched2011
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Open SourceYes
CategoryDatabases

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