I'd like to use Kafka as a persistent store – sort of as an alternative to HDFS. The idea is that I'd load the data into various other systems in order to solve specific needs such as full-text search, analytics, indexing by various attributes, etc. I'd like to keep a single source of truth, however.
I'm struggling a bit to understand how I can configure a topic to retain messages indefinitely. I want to make sure that my data isn't deleted. Is there a guide to configuring Kafka like this?
