The Go Kafka Client https://github.com/stealthly/go_kafka_client is a wrapper around Sarama https://github.com/Shopify/sarama that implements high level consumer functionality (including automatic load balancing and fail-over when consumer clients fail) and other features for producing and consuming with Kafka through Sarama.
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/ On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Dieterly, Deklan <deklan.diete...@hp.com> wrote: > I’m looking at implementing Kafka consumers in Go. From the Kafka wiki, I > see that there are two clients available. > > 1. https://github.com/Shopify/sarama > 2. https://github.com/stealthly/go_kafka_client > > Of the two which is more fully featured? Specifically, I’m looking for > automatic load balancing and fail-over when consumer clients fail. I was > disappointed with the Python client library ( > https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python) that did not have this > functionality built into it and I want to make sure that I don’t make > another choice were I’ll be disappointed. Are there any reasons to prefer > one of the listed Go clients over the other? Are there any gotchas with > either of the two client libraries? > > Thanks. > > > From the wiki at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-Go%28AKAgolang%29 > Go (AKA golang) > > Pure Go implementation with full protocol support. Consumer and Producer > implementations included, GZIP and Snappy compression supported. > > Maintainer: Shopify<http://shopify.com> > License: MIT > > https://github.com/Shopify/sarama > > Another Pure Go implementation built to work as like the "Consumer Group" > High Level Consumer with more features including plug-able partition > ownership and work fan out. > > Maintainer: Big Data Open Source Security< > https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-data-open-source-security-llc> > License: Apache v2.0 > > https://github.com/stealthly/go_kafka_client > > > Regards. > -- > Deklan Dieterly > Hewlett-Packard Company > Sr. Systems Software Engineer > HP Cloud > >
