fede1024/rust-rdkafka

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1996 stars · 361 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

rust-rdkafka is a fully asynchronous, futures-based Apache Kafka client library for Rust built on top of the librdkafka C library. It provides safe, high- and low-level producer and consumer APIs with support for transactions, rebalancing, and cluster administration.

Use cases

• produce messages to kafka from rust asynchronously
• consume from kafka topics with consumer groups and rebalancing
• build event-driven streaming pipelines in rust
• implement exactly-once kafka processing with transactions
• manage kafka topics, partitions, and broker configuration programmatically
• monitor kafka producer and consumer metrics

When to choose

• you need a high-performance, production-grade kafka client in rust
• you want async/futures-based producers and consumers
• you need exactly-once semantics or administrative kafka operations
• you want a safe wrapper around the battle-tested librdkafka

When to avoid

• you use a language other than rust
• you need a pure-rust kafka implementation without a C dependency
• you only need a simple message queue without kafka's operational overhead

Facets

library · maturity stable

message-queue streaming concurrency microservices backend rust windows cross-platform kafka librdkafka futures async event-streaming producer-consumer messaging data-engineering linux macos

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