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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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 * MANUFACTURING
   
   10 out of 10

 * BANKS
   
   7 out of 10

 * INSURANCE
   
   10 out of 10

 * TELECOM
   
   8 out of 10

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10/10 Largest insurance companies
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

 * HIGH THROUGHPUT
   
   Deliver messages at network limited throughput using a cluster of machines
   with latencies as low as 2ms.

 * SCALABLE
   
   Scale 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.

 * PERMANENT STORAGE
   
   Store streams of data safely in a distributed, durable, fault-tolerant
   cluster.

 * HIGH AVAILABILITY
   
   Stretch clusters efficiently over availability zones or connect separate
   clusters across geographic regions.

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ECOSYSTEM

 * BUILT-IN STREAM PROCESSING
   
   Process streams of events with joins, aggregations, filters, transformations,
   and more, using event-time and exactly-once processing.

 * CONNECT TO ALMOST ANYTHING
   
   Kafka’s out-of-the-box Connect interface integrates with hundreds of event
   sources and event sinks including Postgres, JMS, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, and
   more.

 * CLIENT LIBRARIES
   
   Read, write, and process streams of events in a vast array of programming
   languages.

 * LARGE ECOSYSTEM OPEN SOURCE TOOLS
   
   Large ecosystem of open source tools: Leverage a vast array of
   community-driven tooling.

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TRUST & EASE OF USE

 * MISSION CRITICAL
   
   Support mission-critical use cases with guaranteed ordering, zero message
   loss, and efficient exactly-once processing.

 * TRUSTED BY THOUSANDS OF ORGS
   
   Thousands of organizations use Kafka, from internet giants to car
   manufacturers to stock exchanges. More than 5 million unique lifetime
   downloads.

 * VAST USER COMMUNITY
   
   Kafka is one of the five most active projects of the Apache Software
   Foundation, with hundreds of meetups around the world.

 * RICH ONLINE RESOURCES
   
   Rich documentation, online training, guided tutorials, videos, sample
   projects, Stack Overflow, etc.

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