Hi Sergio, I would recommend storm-kafka part of apache storm external. Its being actively maintained by the storm community. There is good documentation in the README file about the config options. Do let us know if its hard to configure and use.
Thanks, Harsha On May 19, 2015 at 7:30:45 AM, Sergio Fernández ([email protected]) wrote: Hi, jumping in to Storm and needing to consume data from a Kafka topic, I found two alternatives: * storm-kafka [1] looks like an external project later integrated in storm * kafka-spout [2] is a completely external project Besides API considerations (kafka-spout actually looks easier to use), I'd like to ask about stability and performance aspect for picking one of those two. Thanks in advance. Cheers, [1] https://github.com/apache/storm/tree/master/external/storm-kafka [2] https://github.com/HolmesNL/kafka-spout/wiki -- Sergio Fernández Partner Technology Manager Redlink GmbH m: +43 6602747925 e: [email protected] w: http://redlink.co
