every large ingest app i have worked on had something akin to kafka, from raw 3d seismic broadcast via sat, to RF tower motion detection, to carrier grade cellu

every large ingest app i have worked on had something akin to kafka, from raw 3d seismic broadcast via sat, to RF tower motion detection, to carrier grade cellular billing. common denominator was a replayable ingest queue. yes, kafka is a "great" idea. however, it is not a replacement for querying.