As of Kafka 2.4, Kafka also supports incremental balancing and does avoid a stop-the-world effect.
Cf. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-429%3A+Kafka+Consumer+Incremental+Rebalance+Protocol There is also a Kafka Summit talk about it: https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-lon19/everything-you-wanted-to-know-kafka-afraid/ -Matthias On 5/24/21 2:09 AM, 孙森 wrote: >> >> >> hi, >> Can someone tell me the reason why kafka dose not use the rebalance >> strategy of rocketmq. When the rocketmq consumer in rebalance ,it does not >> stop the consuming job, and would not cause the STW. Without the control of >> the leader member, this rebalance is more lightweight. >> >