Re: Understanding Consumer Pooling vs Streaming

2016-07-23 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
They implement generally the same consumer group functionality, but the new consumer (your option 1) is more modern, will be supported for a long time (whereas option 2 will eventually be deprecated and removed), and has a better implementation. The new consumer takes into account a lot of lessons

Understanding Consumer Pooling vs Streaming

2016-07-05 Thread Yagnik Suchak
Hello, I am a newbie to Kafka and trying to understand the difference between the following two Kafka Consumer. 1. KafkaConsumer pooling http://kafka.apache.org/090/javadoc/index.html?org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/KafkaConsumer.html >>> consumer.poll(100); 2. ConsumerIterator and KafkaSt