Confluent's Kafka REST Proxy vs Kafka Client
Confluent's Kafka REST Proxy vs Kafka Client
I am curious about the advantages and disadvantages of Confluent's Kafka REST Proxy and the producer/consumer implemented with the kafka official client library.
i know that Confluent's Kafka REST Proxy is used for administrative tasks and for languages not supported by the kafka client.
So, what are the advantages of the kafka client?
@cricket_007 Java client. i don't know Rdkafka
– 김태우
yesterday
Well, the REST Proxy uses the Java client internally, so I don't don't really understand your question. The main benefit would be scalability over many JVM instances and threads, also if the REST Proxy server goes down, clients still are able to communicate with Kafka on their own. librdkafka is a C/C++ implementation of the Kafka protocol for non JVM languages (meaning it could be faster at the cost of less features)
– cricket_007
yesterday
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Which Kafka Client? Java? Rdkafka?
– cricket_007
2 days ago