It has all the bits missing from Kafka you want and they are trying to bolt on to Kafka. Tiered storage Geo replication Multi-tenancy Massive partition counts

It has all the bits missing from Kafka you want and they are trying to bolt on to Kafka. Tiered storage Geo replication Multi-tenancy Massive partition counts Benchmarks have lower latency Really the question should be why Kafka over Pulsar and the only real answer is it’s been around longer and Confluent are really aggressive with their marketing, as an example you might often hear “why Kafka is more ACID than your database” from Confluent, or “Kafka does exactly once” vs effectively once with idempotent operations.