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Redis does a lot more than just store keys and values. Functionally speaking Redis Pub/Sub and Kafka are interchangable up to a certain level of throughput.
by 010a 10y ago
Redis does a lot more than just store keys and values. Functionally speaking Redis Pub/Sub and Kafka are interchangable up to a certain level of throughput.
- saryant 10y agoThey really serve very different use cases. Redis pub/sub consumers only receive messages while connected, whereas Kafka consumers can pick up where they left off. Event ordering, back pressure, etc. There are many use cases Redis pub/sub can't serve beyond just scalability.