Why Apache Kafka
We are using Apache Kafka as the stream data platform (MOM: message-oriented middleware). Core reasons for choosing Kafka is it's high reliability and ability to deal with data with a very low latency.
Note
Message-oriented middleware (MOM) is software or hardware infrastructure supporting the sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.
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Apache Kafka has some key attributes attached to it making it an ideal choice for us in achieving the capability that we are looking to implement the Data Lake. They are bulleted below:
- Scalability: Capable of handling high-velocity and high-volume data. Hundreds of megabytes per second throughput with terabytes of data.
- Distributed: Kafka is distributed by design and handles some of the distributed capabilities as follows:
- Replication: The replication feature is one of the default features which needs to be available for any distributed enabled technology and Kafka has this feature built-in.
- Partition capable: Again...