there are kafka producers/consumers in a lot of languages. There is an
Ecosystem page somewhere in the wiki. Take a look at that.

Finally, I think you should experiment with both activemq and kafka and
then take a decision. Don't try to find a solution and fit your problem to
it, should be the other way round.

--
Sharninder



On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:40 AM, siddharth ubale <siddharth.ub...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi ,
> Thanks for the quick follow up Philip.
> Also , can you let me know whether the kafka implementation can be as
> versatile as ActiveMQ  with regards to connectivity?
> I mean to say a web-app generating transactional data in a data base from
> java webapp, ruby web app or .net web app .... can kafka talk to these with
> ease as ActiveMQ does or any AMQP protocol messaging system does?
> finally, i would also like to know whether 0.9.2 incubating can be used in
> production
>
> Thanks,
> Siddharth
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Philip O'Toole <
> philip.oto...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>

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