The Storm-External project has the Kafka Spouts and bolts; Storm doesn't directly control the compatibility with Kafka, with that being said the default version of Kafka integrations will work according to your list; so the answer is Yes about the "compatibility"
However, it's still possible to use older version of Kafka with newer version of Storm and vice-a-versa by either implementing your own Spouts / Bolts or carefully working with selective dependency selection in your topology. On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Kristopher Kane <kkane.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need some clarification on Kafka broker version support across Storm > branches. > > storm-kafka-client uses the 'new' Kafka APIs > > > The master branch README of storm-kafka-client says that it ONLY supports > Kafka version .10 and later. > > The 1.x branch README of storm-kafka-client says that it ONLY supports > Kafka version .10 and later. > > The 1.0.x branch README of storm-kafka-client says that it ONLY supports > Kafka version .9 and later. > > > Is it really true that 1.x and later only support Kafka version .10 and > later or that it was tested on Kafka .10 but since it is the new API really > still works on .9 as well and the wording was never changed in the README? > > Thanks, > > Kris >
