One issue is that Kafka leverage some very specific features of the linux kernel that are probably far different from Windows, so I imagine the performance profile is likewise much different.
On 4/11/17, 8:52 AM, "Tomasz Rojek" <tomasz.ro...@collibra.com> wrote: Hi All, We want to choose provider of messaging system in our company, one of possible choices is Apache Kafka. One of operating system that will host brokers is windows, according to documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#os "*We have seen a few issues running on Windows and Windows is not currently a well supported platform though we would be happy to change that.*" Can you please elaborate more on this. What exactly potential issues are we talking about? What functionalities of kafka are influenced by this? Maybe it occurs only on specific version of windows? Thank you in advance for any information. With Regards Tomasz Rojek Java Engineer