O, I'm not trying to use it for persistence, I'm wanting to sync 3 databases: sql, mongo, graph. I want to publish to kafka and then have it update the db's. I'm wanting to keep this as efficient as possible.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:39 PM, cac...@gmail.com <cac...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would say that it depends upon what you mean by persistence. I don't > believe Kafka is intended to be your permanent data store, but it would > work if you were basically write once with appropriate query patterns. It > would be an odd way to describe it though. > > Christian > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Patrick, Kafka can be used at any scale including small ones > > (initially anyways). The issues I ran into personally various issues with > > ZooKeeper management and a bug in deleting topics (is that fixed yet?) > In > > any case you might try out Kafka - given its highly performant, > scalable, > > and flexible backbone. After that you will have little worry about > scale > > - given Kafka's use within massive web scale deployments. > > > > 2014-09-12 15:18 GMT-07:00 Patrick Barker <patrickbarke...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Hey, I'm new to kafka and I'm trying to get a handle on how it all > > works. I > > > want to integrate polyglot persistence into my application. Kafka looks > > > like exactly what I want just on a smaller scale. I am currently only > > > dealing with about 2,000 users, which may grow, but is kafka a good > use > > > case here, or is there another technology thats better suited? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > >