> An alternative to using simpleconsumer in this use case is to use the > zookeeper consumer connector and turn off auto commit. >
Keep in mind that this works only if you don't care about controlling per partition rewind capability. The high level consumer will not give you control over which partitions your consumer consumes and which partitions it commits the offsets for. If you need to rewind consumption for a subset of those partitions, then ZookeeperConsumerConnector will not work for you. Thanks, Neha
