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 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 confirm what > I'm seeing. > > If this is true, does this affect the size of the message when fetching? > In other words, if I send a 100K message, do I have to make sure I can > fetch a 300K message since the message can now be 300K in size because of > the encoding? > > Casey Sybrandy MSWE > Six3Systems > Cyber and Enterprise Systems Group > www.six3systems.com > 301-206-6000 (Office) > 301-206-6020 (Fax) > 11820 West Market Place > Suites N-P > Fulton, MD. 20759 > >
