That benchmark was comparing apples to oranges. Redpanda fsynced to disk and kafka saved to memory with deferred writes. Here is a response https://redpanda.com

That benchmark was comparing apples to oranges. Redpanda fsynced to disk and kafka saved to memory with deferred writes. Here is a response https://redpanda.com/blog/why-fsync-is-needed-for-data-safety-in-kafka-or-non-byzantine-protocols https://redpanda.com/blog/why-fsync-is-needed-for-data-safet...