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, (
https://github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server
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,
>
> https://nats.io/ab
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 t
