>> At a high level, KTables provide a capability to query for data.

Can you elaborate? Do you refer to "Interactive Queries" feature?

>> And I imagine latency/throughout of KTable queries depend on the number of
>> consumers the query would have to touch to complete. 

Similar here. I am not sure if I can follow.


-Matthias

On 11/2/18 4:27 AM, Tom Szumowski wrote:
> Thank you for the clarification. I understand they are fundamentally
> different underneath than a relational database, and may not be fair to
> compare directly.
> 
> But how about benchmarks that aren't a comparison from other databases?
> 
> At a high level, KTables provide a capability to query for data. Suppose I
> have a requirement to fetch thr data in less than X milliseconds. It seems
> fair to want to understand if a KTable can satisfy that capability under
> some configuration, or if I need to seek alternate solutions.
> 
> And I imagine latency/throughout of KTable queries depend on the number of
> consumers the query would have to touch to complete. For example, in
> complex joins or filters. Or perhaps a trade-off with GlobalKTables...
> 
> That's the kind of information in terms of benchmarks I'd be interested in
> knowing exists or not.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, 16:24 Matthias J. Sax <matth...@confluent.io wrote:
> 
>> I am not aware if benchmarks, but want to point out, that KTables work
>> somewhat different to relational database system. Thus, you might want
>> to evaluate not base on performance, but on the semantics KTable provide.
>>
>> Recall, that Kafka Streams is a stream processing library while a
>> database system is a "batch processing" system. It's two quite different
>> types of systems and benchmarking them to compare each other is
>> questionable.
>>
>>
>> -Matthias
>>
>> On 10/31/18 12:18 PM, Tom Szumowski wrote:
>>> I was wonderinf if anyone had or knew of benchmark tests for KTable or
>>> GlobalKTable queries/joins, as compared to alternatives such as
>> distributed
>>> databases.
>>>
>>
>>
> 

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