I’m not the maintainer of either pykafka or librdkafka, so I can’t
realllLyyyy comment much on the benefit, but you may be right.  However,
librdkafka is well maintained and solid, so using it as the backing for a
Python client gets you the benefit of not having to reinvent features
yourself in Python.

New kafka-python stuff looks cool, I’m excited to try it out for producing
soon.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Dana Powers <dana.pow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Agree - kafka-python was in hibernation waiting for 0.9.0.0 Kafka release,
> so a few issues lingered longer than I would have liked. Most of my
> comments relate to latest master, which we are hoping to release after a
> bit more testing and polish.
>
> Re librdkafka -- to be honest, I'm skeptical that C protocol bindings are
> going to improve python performance much. In my experience, the devil is in
> the client logic details, not the wire protocol parsing. Adding a C
> compilation step also adds installation and operational overhead (install
> gcc or manage linux wheels). So we have avoided adding that to kafka-python
> without significant evidence showing performance benefits that can't be
> duplicated in pure python.
>
> -Dana
> On Jan 11, 2016 9:02 AM, "Sam Pegler" <sam.peg...@infectiousmedia.com>
> wrote:
>
> > kafka-python (https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python) has also just merged
> > performance improvements to the consumer in
> > https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/issues/290 which should see a
> pretty
> > decent boost in throughput.  We were somewhat put off by the poor
> > performance in earlier versions, I imagine many people would have been in
> > the same position so it's worth revisiting.
> >
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> > On 11 January 2016 at 16:28, Andrew Otto <o...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > pykafka’s balanced consumer is very useful. pykafka also has Python
> > > bindings to the librdkafka C library that you can optionally enable,
> > which
> > > might get you some speed boosts.
> > >
> > > python-kafka (oh, I just saw this 0.9x version, hm!) was better at
> > > producing than pykafka for us, so we am currently using pykafka for
> > > consumption, and python-kafka for production.  python-kafka allows you
> to
> > > produce to multiple topics using the same client instance.  (pykafka
> may
> > > support this soon: https://github.com/Parsely/pykafka/issues/354)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Dana Powers <dana.pow...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > pykafka uses a custom zookeeper implementation for consumer groups.
> > > > kafka-python uses the 0.9.0.0 server apis to accomplish the same.
> > > >
> > > > -Dana
> > > > On Jan 8, 2016 18:32, "chengxin Cai" <ia...@outlook.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > I heard that Pykakfa can create a balanced consumer.
> > > > >
> > > > > And there should be no other big difference.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Best Regards
> > > > >
> > > > > > 在 2016年1月9日,08:58,Dana Powers <dana.pow...@rd.io> 写道:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Doug,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The differences are fairly subtle. kafka-python is a
> > community-backed
> > > > > > project that aims to be consistent w/ the official java client;
> > > pykafka
> > > > > is
> > > > > > sponsored by parse.ly and aims to provide a pythonic interface.
> > > > > whichever
> > > > > > you go with, I would love to hear your specific feedback on
> > > > kafka-python.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -Dana (kafka-python maintainer)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Doug Tomm <dct...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> we're using kafka-python, weighing pykafka, and wondering if
> > there's
> > > > > >> another that is bettor to use.  does confluent endorse or
> > recommend
> > > a
> > > > > >> particular python package (psorry for the alliteration)?
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> doug
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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