Apache Kafka
More than 80% of all Fortune 100 companies trust, and use Kafka.
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
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				Manufacturing10 out of 10 
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				Banks7 out of 10 
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				Insurance10 out of 10 
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				Telecom8 out of 10 
10/10 Largest manufacturing companies
10/10 Largest information technology and services companies
8/10 Largest telecommunications companies
8/10 Largest transportation companies
7/10 Largest retail companies
7/10 Largest banks and finance companies
6/10 Largest energy and utilities organizations
Above is a snapshot of the number of top-ten largest companies using Kafka, per-industry.
Core Capabilities
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					High ThroughputDeliver messages at network limited throughput using a cluster of machines with latencies as low as 2ms. 
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					ScalableScale production clusters up to a thousand brokers, trillions of messages per day, petabytes of data, hundreds of thousands of partitions. Elastically expand and contract storage and processing. 
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					Permanent storageStore streams of data safely in a distributed, durable, fault-tolerant cluster. 
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					High availabilityStretch clusters efficiently over availability zones or connect separate clusters across geographic regions. 
Ecosystem
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					Built-in Stream ProcessingProcess streams of events with joins, aggregations, filters, transformations, and more, using event-time and exactly-once processing. 
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					Connect To Almost AnythingKafka’s out-of-the-box Connect interface integrates with hundreds of event sources and event sinks including Postgres, JMS, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, and more. 
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					Client LibrariesRead, write, and process streams of events in a vast array of programming languages. 
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					Large Ecosystem Open Source ToolsLarge ecosystem of open source tools: Leverage a vast array of community-driven tooling. 
Trust & Ease Of Use
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					Mission CriticalSupport mission-critical use cases with guaranteed ordering, zero message loss, and efficient exactly-once processing. 
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					Trusted By Thousands of OrgsThousands of organizations use Kafka, from internet giants to car manufacturers to stock exchanges. More than 5 million unique lifetime downloads. 
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					Vast User CommunityKafka is one of the five most active projects of the Apache Software Foundation, with hundreds of meetups around the world. 
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					Rich Online ResourcesRich documentation, online training, guided tutorials, videos, sample projects, Stack Overflow, etc. 
