So essentially you can't do "queue" pattern, unless you somehow implement locking on the client?
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > SimpleConsumer do not have any concept of group management, only the > high-level consumers have. So multiple simple consumers can independently > consume from the same partition(s). > > Guozhang > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Kane Kane <kane.ist...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yeah, I noticed that, i'm curious how balancing happens if SimpleConsumer > > is used. I.e. i can provide a partition to read from if i use > > SimpleConsumer, but what if someone else already attached to that > > partition, what would happen? Also what would happen if one > SimpleConsumer > > attached to all partitions? Noone would be able to join? > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > There are 2 types of consumer clients in Kafka - > > ZookeeperConsumerConnector > > > and SimpleConsumer. Only the former has the re balancing logic. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Neha > > > On Oct 1, 2013 6:30 AM, "Kane Kane" <kane.ist...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > But it looks like some clients don't implement it? > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >
