You can find Kafka use cases described here - http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#uses
Also, the design document is a good read to understand why Kafka is more efficient - http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#design Thanks, Neha On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Philip O'Toole <phi...@loggly.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Lee, Yeon Ok (이연옥) <yeono...@ebay.com > >wrote: > > > Hi, all. > > I just got curiosity why Apache Kafka is better than any other Message > > System in terms of throughput, and durability. > > > > Because it's brilliant, that's why. :-) > > > > What’s the fact to let Kafka have better performance? > > > > Because it doesn't track consumer state, not in 0.72 anyway. And it makes > very efficient use of disks. > > > > I read some documents and researched, however, I am not quite sure about > > that.. > > And Zookeeper in Apache Kafka seems like a SPOF, Doesn’t it? > > > > Kafka can be configured to run without Zookeeper, if you are that > concerned, at the cost of more rigid system. > > > > How Kafka be implemented in real world web-site? > > > > Depends what you want to do. Whether you need to use it is the real > question. > > Philip >
