On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Lee, Yeon Ok (이연옥) <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, all. > I just got curiosity why Apache Kafka is better than any other Message > System in terms of throughput, and durability. > Because it's brilliant, that's why. :-) > What’s the fact to let Kafka have better performance? > Because it doesn't track consumer state, not in 0.72 anyway. And it makes very efficient use of disks. > I read some documents and researched, however, I am not quite sure about > that.. > And Zookeeper in Apache Kafka seems like a SPOF, Doesn’t it? > Kafka can be configured to run without Zookeeper, if you are that concerned, at the cost of more rigid system. > How Kafka be implemented in real world web-site? > Depends what you want to do. Whether you need to use it is the real question. Philip
