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This is missing the whole point of Kafka consumers, which is to consume data from a topic and do something with it. One of those things being “store it in a re
by LgWoodenBadger 5y ago
This is missing the whole point of Kafka consumers, which is to consume data from a topic and do something with it.
One of those things being “store it in a relational model” or “write a sum to a key value store” or something else.
This ability comes for free with Kafka, but is very not-free when using a relational model.
- dmitriid 5y ago> This is missing the whole point of Kafka consumers It's not missing that because it doesn't even address that. I'm answering a specific point.
- robertlagrant 5y agoThey were answering this statement: > Relational database seem to be a crazily overengineered solution in search of a problem Why would an answer to that need to mention Kafka consumers?
- LgWoodenBadger 5y ago* When all you need is an unbounded stream of data that you need to traverse in order to do all these things.* This is the part I was responding to.
- robertlagrant 5y agoYou're talking about "putting a snapshot of the data somewhere" - the person you're replying to is replying to someone who says this sort of snapshot is pointless.