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brew install kafka v4.3.0 Apache-2.0

Distributed event streaming platform and message broker written in Java, requiring JDK runtime.

Why you might care

Kafka is a foundational message broker for building real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures at scale. Use it when you need pub-sub messaging with high throughput, durability, and replicated topic partitions across clusters. More robust than RabbitMQ for large-volume streaming; complements or replaces traditional message queues in microservice and data engineering stacks.

Categories

message-queue database

Alternatives

RabbitMQ Apache Pulsar Redis Streams AWS Kinesis
2.2k
30-day installs · #924
4.9k
90-day · #1098
26.1k
365-day · #948

Runtime dependencies

openjdk

Links

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