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Surprised there's no mention of Redpanda here.
by elvircrn 1y ago
Surprised there's no mention of Redpanda here.
- axegon_ 1y agoHaving used both Kafka and Redpanda on several occasions, I'd pick Redpanda any day of the week without a second thought. Easier to setup, easier to maintain, a lot less finicky ans uses a fraction of the resources.
- enether 1y agoIn what way is it materially easier to maintain and less finicky? I read a lot about this but I haven’t seen a concise bullet point list of why, which leads me to naturally distrust such claims. Ditto for the resources - Kafka is usually bottlenecked on disk/network, and whether it’s c++ or not doesn’t solve that
- SkipperCat 1y agoI've been using Redpanda for a few years now and here's what I've noticed. Its a compiled binary - no JVM to manage. Java apps have always been a headache for me. Plus, no zookeeper - one less thing to break. The biggest benefit I've seen is the performance. Redpanda just outperforms Apache Kakfa on similar hardware. Its also Kafka compliant in every way I've noticed, so all my favorite tools that interact with Kafka work the same with Redpanda. Redpanda, like Kafka, writes to disk, so you'll always be limited by your hardware no matter what you use (but NVMe's are fast and affordable). YMMV, but its been a good experience for me.
- dangoodmanUT 1y agosame
- EdwardDiego 1y agoRedpanda isn't FOSS. Apache Kafka is.
- SkipperCat 1y agoRedpanda community edition operates under the BSL license - https://www.redpanda.com/blog/open-source https://www.redpanda.com/blog/open-source IANAL, but it looks pretty open source to me.