Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka - A distributed event streaming platform observed · 2026-10-07
Health v2 · maintenance only
76/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5545
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 14
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
33918 stars · 15558 forks observed · 2026-10-07
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-09-28, confidence 0.99
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform that provides durable, high‑throughput messaging. It enables real‑time data pipelines and stream processing across large clusters.
Use cases
- build real‑time data pipelines for log aggregation and analytics
- stream IoT sensor data to downstream processing services
- implement event‑driven microservices architectures
- process financial transactions with exactly‑once semantics
- collect and distribute clickstream data for user behavior analysis
When to choose
- you need a scalable, fault‑tolerant system for high‑volume event streaming
- your application requires durable storage of streams with replay capability
- you need exactly‑once processing guarantees across distributed consumers
- you are building a data lake or real‑time analytics platform
When to avoid
- you have very low‑latency (<1 ms) requirements that a message queue cannot meet
- your workload is simple point‑to‑point messaging and does not need distributed storage
- resource constraints prevent running a multi‑node cluster or Docker/Kubernetes environment
- you need complex relational queries over the data, better served by a database
Facets
service · maturity active
message-queue big-data jvm windows cloud self-hosted distributed event-streaming high-throughput fault-tolerant exactly-once data-engineering streaming linux docker kubernetes
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/apache/kafka · fetched 2026-10-07 · 351690219ec5
- homepage: https://kafka.apache.org/ · fetched 2026-09-14 · 97856c12493c
- site_page: https://kafka.apache.org/43/getting-started · fetched 2026-09-14 · 716c4e4bb65b
- site_page: https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart · fetched 2026-09-14 · 4d9fb093039d
- site_page: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation · fetched 2026-09-14 · e25789db26ce
- site_page: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams · fetched 2026-09-14 · a91d5760408c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| apache/kafka | main | 76 |
| apache/kafka-site | docs | 76 |
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