RE: Local Storage

2015-12-18 Thread Heath Ivie
Thank you very much Gwen -Original Message- From: Gwen Shapira [mailto:g...@confluent.io] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 3:45 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Re: Local Storage Hi, Kafka *is* a data store. It writes data to files on the OS file system. One directory per

Re: Local Storage

2015-12-17 Thread Gwen Shapira
Hi, Kafka *is* a data store. It writes data to files on the OS file system. One directory per partition, and a new file every specific amount of time (you can control this with log.roll.ms). The data format is specific to Kafka. Hope this helps, Gwen On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Heath Ivie