That's what I would have assumed. And no, we're not using compression.
Thanks.
From: Jun Rao [mailto:jun...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:26 AM
To: users@kafka.apache.org
Cc: Sybrandy, Casey
Subject: Re: Binary Data and Kafka
No. Kafka broker stores the binary data as
No. Kafka broker stores the binary data as it is. The binary data may be
compressed, if compression is enabled at the producer.
Thanks,
Jun
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Sybrandy, Casey <
casey.sybra...@six3systems.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Does the Kafka broker Base64 encode the messages? We
All,
Does the Kafka broker Base64 encode the messages? We are sending binary data
to the brokers and I looked at the logs to confirm that they data was being
stored, however all of the data, with a few exceptions, looks to be Base64
encoded. I didn't expect this, so I wanted to ask and confir
