# fede1024/rust-rdkafka

A fully asynchronous, futures-based Kafka client library for Rust based on librdkafka

Repository: https://github.com/fede1024/rust-rdkafka
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rust-rdkafka
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rust, kafka-client, librdkafka, kafka, futures
Last push: 2026-07-15T23:24:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3595, "days_push": 49, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1996, forks 361 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:03.494850+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: message-queue, streaming, concurrency
- domain: microservices, backend
- platform: rust, windows, cross-platform
- tags: kafka, librdkafka, futures, async, event-streaming, producer-consumer, messaging, data-engineering, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- fede1024/rust-rdkafka (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:03.494850+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:02:29.339002+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fede1024/rust-rdkafka (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:03.494850+00:00, sha 8b6fd58cdc98)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.