Hi Jack, No, kafka doesn't support not writing to disk. If you're really 100% sure of yourself you could use a ramdisk and mount Kafka on it, but that's not supported. I'd recommend "just" writing to disk, it's plenty fast enough for nearly all use cases.
Thanks Tom Crayford Heroku Kafka On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Jack Huang <jackhu...@mz.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to make a topic to be stored in memory only and not writing > to disk? If not, what's the best way to minimize writing to disk? For this > application we only need the notion of partitions and a short retention > time (1hr or so) from Kafka. We want to use Kafka because we want to keep > the flexibility to add persistence back if we need to. > > Thanks, > Jack >
