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A fast, scalable, fault-tolerant messaging system
Apache™ Kafka is a fast, scalable, durable, and fault-tolerant publish-subscribe messaging system. Kafka is often used in place of traditional message brokers like JMS and AMQP because of its higher throughput, reliability and replication.
Kafka works in combination with Apache Storm, Apache HBase and Apache Spark for real-time analysis and rendering of streaming data. Kafka can message geospatial data from a fleet of long-haul trucks or sensor data from heating and cooling equipment in office buildings. Whatever the industry or use case, Kafka brokers massive message streams for low-latency analysis in Enterprise Apache Hadoop.
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