librdkafka

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "librdkafka - the Apache Kafka\u00ae C/C++ client library\n===================================================\n\nCopyright (c) 2012-2022, [Magnus Edenhill](http://www.edenhill.se/).\n              2023 [Confluent Inc.](https://www.confluent.io/).\n\n[https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka)\n\n**librdkafka** is a C library implementation of the\n[Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/) protocol, providing Producer, Consumer\nand Admin clients. It was designed with message delivery reliability\nand high performance in mind, current figures exceed 1 million msgs/second for\nthe producer and 3 million msgs/second for the consumer.\n\n**librdkafka** is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.\n\nKAFKA is a registered trademark of The Apache Software Foundation and\nhas been licensed for use by librdkafka. librdkafka has no\naffiliation with and is not endorsed by The Apache Software Foundation.\n\n\n# Features\n  * Full Exactly-Once-Semantics (EOS) support\n  * High-level producer, including Idempotent and Transactional producers\n  * High-level balanced KafkaConsumer (requires broker \u003e= 0.9)\n  * Simple (legacy) consumer\n  * Admin client\n  * Compression: snappy, gzip, lz4, zstd\n  * [SSL](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/wiki/Using-SSL-with-librdkafka) support\n  * [SASL](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/wiki/Using-SASL-with-librdkafka) (GSSAPI/Kerberos/SSPI, PLAIN, SCRAM, OAUTHBEARER) support\n  * Full list of [supported KIPs](INTRODUCTION.md#supported-kips)\n  * Broker version support: \u003e=0.8 (see [Broker version compatibility](INTRODUCTION.md#broker-version-compatibility))\n  * Guaranteed API stability for C \u0026 C++ APIs (ABI safety guaranteed for C)\n  * [Statistics](STATISTICS.md) metrics\n  * Debian package: librdkafka1 and librdkafka-dev in Debian and Ubuntu\n  * RPM package: librdkafka and librdkafka-devel\n  * Gentoo package: dev-libs/librdkafka\n  * Portable: runs on Linux, MacOS X, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, ...\n\n# Documentation",
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