Kafka can ingest any kind of data, and connect to many types of systems. Much work exists in this area already, for hooking a wide variety of systems to Kafka. If your system isn't supported, then you write a Kafka Producer to pull (or receive) messages from your system, and write them to Kafka. Take a look at the Ecosystem page:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Ecosystem Philip ----------------------------------------- http://www.philipotoole.com On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:05 AM, siddharth ubale <siddharth.ub...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi guys, We are implementing a messaging system in order to perform Real time analytics. However, we are confused on using ActiveMQ or Apache Kafka. The point of worry for us are : 1. What kind of data can be ingested by Apache kafka? If we see , Active MQ uses the JMS which has an API to Java as well as other open source technologies. Therefore, in future we need not worry about interface to or from ActiveMQ while performing analytics. Does kafka have any feature like this where it can use a messaging service which can handle wide range of input types and also have connectors to various other systems? 2. As compared to network of brokers concept in ActiveMQ do we have something like that in kafka also?? Thanks, Siddharth Ubale
