What record format are you writing to Kafka with?
> On Sep 12, 2014, at 17:45, Patrick Barker <patrickbarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > O, I'm not trying to use it for persistence, I'm wanting to sync 3 > databases: sql, mongo, graph. I want to publish to kafka and then have it > update the db's. I'm wanting to keep this as efficient as possible. > >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:39 PM, cac...@gmail.com <cac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I would say that it depends upon what you mean by persistence. I don't >> believe Kafka is intended to be your permanent data store, but it would >> work if you were basically write once with appropriate query patterns. It >> would be an odd way to describe it though. >> >> Christian >> >>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Patrick, Kafka can be used at any scale including small ones >>> (initially anyways). The issues I ran into personally various issues with >>> ZooKeeper management and a bug in deleting topics (is that fixed yet?) >> In >>> any case you might try out Kafka - given its highly performant, >> scalable, >>> and flexible backbone. After that you will have little worry about >> scale >>> - given Kafka's use within massive web scale deployments. >>> >>> 2014-09-12 15:18 GMT-07:00 Patrick Barker <patrickbarke...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hey, I'm new to kafka and I'm trying to get a handle on how it all >>> works. I >>>> want to integrate polyglot persistence into my application. Kafka looks >>>> like exactly what I want just on a smaller scale. I am currently only >>>> dealing with about 2,000 users, which may grow, but is kafka a good >> use >>>> case here, or is there another technology thats better suited? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>
