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IBM to acquire Confluent

(www.confluent.io)
443 points abd12 | 3 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source
1. rwmj ◴[08 Dec 25 15:17 UTC] No.46193183[source]▶
How is this different from Apache Qpid or RabbitMQ or IBM MQ (at least the first and third of those is already owned by IBM!)
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2. orthoxerox ◴[08 Dec 25 22:38 UTC] No.46198615[source]▶
If you're serious, Kafka is a topic-centric message bus. Everything is a topic, not a queue, and its internals are optimized to achieve very quick at-least-once delivery.
3. lucketone ◴[09 Dec 25 18:27 UTC] No.46208557[source]▶
If you use Kafka as a queue, then no difference. (Load balance a message between consumers)

But you can also use Kafka as pub-sub system (duplicate messages to each subscribers)

Messages are not deleted after consumption (configurable)