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IBM to acquire Confluent

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443 points abd12 | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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1. 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.