Streaming is hot. The demand for real-time data processing is rising, and streaming vendors are proliferating and competing. Apache Kafka is a key component in many data pipeline architectures, mostly ...

Event-driven architectures are wonderful. But Kafka was never intended to be a database, and using it as a database won’t solve your problem. It’s a tale as old as time. An enterprise is struggling ...

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Sometimes a database is like a collection of wax tablets that you can stack and sort through to update, and these days, sometimes it is more like a river that has a shape defined by its geography but ...

Don’t look now, but Kafka is transforming into a database. That’s the new direction the popular event streaming platform is headed, according to Confluent CEO Jay Kreps keynote this morning, in which ...

Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra pose undeniable benefits to proprietary data structures, offering high data throughput, scalability, durability, availability, consistency, and more. It’s clear why ...

These days, massively scalable pub/sub messaging is virtually synonymous with Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka continues to be the rock-solid, open-source, go-to choice for distributed streaming ...

Confluent Inc. said today it’s introducing a new “cluster linking” feature to its event streaming platforms. The idea is to make event data globally available to businesses, no matter if it resides in ...

Kinetica, provider in-memory analytics databases accelerated by GPUs, is joining the Confluent Partner Program and has completed the development and certification of its Apache Kafka Connector.