Confluent Launches Cloud-Native Kora: An Alternative to Kafka
This IDC Market Note analyzes news from Confluent, the commercial company spun out of LinkedIn that shepherds the open-source, real-time data streaming platform, Kafka. It built a new engine from the ground up for cloud, while maintaining Kafka compatibility. Moreover, it added new Data Quality Rules, Connectors, Stream Sharing, and a managed Flink service after its acquisition of Immerok. "Kafka is one of the most popular event stream processing engines," said Jason Stamper, research manager, IDC's Data Intelligence, Integration and Platforms. "This slew of announcements are a considerable step forward in what the commercial company behind Kafka — Confluent — has to offer customers over and above self-managed Kafka clusters."
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- Executive Snapshot
- In This Market Note
- IDC's Point of View
- Background
- Launch of a New Streaming Engine: Kora
- Turning its Back on Kafka?
- Other Significant Announcements
- Data Quality Rules
- Stream Sharing
- Custom Connectors
- Early Access for Managed Apache Flink
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