It's not a queue. Some people may use it for cases that resemble a messaging queue, but it definitely is not, and many valid use cases for Kafka would be compl

It's not a queue. Some people may use it for cases that resemble a messaging queue, but it definitely is not, and many valid use cases for Kafka would be completely impossible with a traditional message queue or Redis. How about actually reading the Kafka documentation instead of an inaccurate wikipedia page, it's pretty good and won't take you that long http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/ http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/