Tim,
Kafka can be used as a key-value store if you turn on log compaction:
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#compaction You need to be
careful with that since it's purely last-writer-wins and doesn't have
anything like CAS that might help you manage concurrent writers, but the
basic
Hi,
In the big data ecosystem, I have started to use kafka, essentially, as a:
- unordered list/array, and
- a cluster-wide pipe
I guess you could argue that any message bus product is a simple array/pipe
but kafka's scale and model make things so easy :)
I am wondering if there are any
