Hi, It depends on your use-case.
https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#uses Log retention(size/time) policy is sufficient for normal messaging system like use-cases. Refer Kafka documentation for more details. Manikumar On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:14 PM, anand jain <anandjain1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Mani, > > Eager to know, which one is better to use? > > Could you please let me know the pros/cons of one over another? > > Regards > Anand > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Manikumar Reddy <ku...@nmsworks.co.in> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Kafka supports two types of log/messages retention policies. > > > > Log retention(size/time): The messages will be discarded after > > log.retention.minutes or when the log size reaches log.retention.bytes > > > > Log compaction: which ensures that Kafka will always retain at least the > > last known value for each message key within the log of data for a single > > topic partition. > > > > https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#compaction > > > > > > Kumar > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:02 PM, anand jain <anandjain1...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I want to delete the message from a Kafka broker after consuming > it(Java > > > consumer). How can I do that? > > > > > >
