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 > > >
