Re: Question on performance data for Kafka vs NATS

2019-03-22 Thread Adam Bellemare
One more thing to note: You are looking at regular, base NATS. On its own, it is not a direct 1-1 comparison to Kafka because it lacks things like data retention, clustering and replication. Instead, you would want to compare it to NATS-Streaming, (

Re: Question on performance data for Kafka vs NATS

2019-03-21 Thread Hans Jespersen
Thats a 4.5 year old benchmark and it was run with a single broker node and only 1 producer and 1 consumer all running on a single MacBookPro. Definitely not the target production environment for Kafka. -hans > On Mar 21, 2019, at 11:43 AM, M. Manna wrote: > > HI All, > >

Question on performance data for Kafka vs NATS

2019-03-21 Thread M. Manna
HI All, https://nats.io/about/ this shows a general comparison of sender/receiver throughputs for NATS and other messaging system including our favourite Kafka. It appears that Kafka, despite taking the 2nd place, has a very low throughput. My question is, where does Kafka win over NATS? is it