On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > Im a bit confused on the concept of a "message" in Kafka. How does this > differ, if at all, from a message in RabbitMQ? It seems to me that Kafka is > better suited for very write intensive "messages" like log data but RabbitMQ > may be a better fit for traditional "messages"… i.e. "Product Purchased" or > "User Registered" message.
I'm not sure why you think this, or how to distinguish between a 'log' message and some other kind. Messages = data, annotated with metadata. The latter is typically a protocol-specific envelope. Kafka and Rabbit certainly have different envelopes, eg for mapping data to subscribers/queries. alexis
