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Apache Kafka vs. Google Cloud Pub/Sub

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    Apache Kafka

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AApache Kafka is an open-source stream processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala and Java. The Kafka event streaming platform is used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.N/A

    Google Cloud Pub/Sub

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Pub/Sub, a managed message oriented middleware supporting many-to-many asynchronous messaging between applications.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Apache
    Chose Apache Kafka
    Confluent Cloud is still based on Apache Kafka but it has a subscription fee so, from a long term perspective, it is wiser to deploy your own Kafka instance that spans public and private cloud. Amazon Kinesis, Google Cloud Pub/Sub do not do well for a very number of messages …
    Incentivized
    Chose Apache Kafka
    I used other messaging/queue solutions that are a lot more basic than Confluent Kafka, as well as another solution that is no longer in the market called Xively, which was bought and "buried" by Google. In comparison, these solutions offer way fewer functionalities and respond …
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    Google
    Chose Google Cloud Pub/Sub
    Kafka looks like and ordered queue, there no deliver backoff, so if a message has a problem, it doesn't advance to the next one. Google Cloud Pub/Sub looks like more a SET of messages, and kafka like a LIST. In kafka a same message will repeat instantaneously while it is being …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Cloud Pub/Sub
    We considered several messaging platforms including Kafka and Kinesis but both would have required more developer work and didn't integrate as nicely with our ecosystem. RabbitMQ is another messaging platform I've researched and prototyped on; it also would have required more …
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    Apache KafkaGoogle Cloud Pub/Sub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.8
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.4
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