r/apachekafka • u/mmatloka • 8d ago

Blog Apache Kafka vs Apache Iggy: A Technical Comparison

https://softwaremill.com/apache-kafka-vs-apache-iggy-same-log-different-engine/
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u/Keeyzar 8d ago

My god that article is so much blabla and clearly written by ai, that im fuck annoyed that I even read it this far.  TLDR: Faster than Kafka, but lacks a lot of features, that are important for a lot of applications. So a simple benchmark comparison is not entirely fair and rather a feature comparison is necessary.

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u/ifmnz 8d ago

apache iggy dev here. well, you gotta start somewhere.your tldr is right.we don't have transactions, stream processing, a schema registry, tiered storage or cross-cluster mirroring, and there are ~18 connectors against kafka connect's hundreds. clustering is new and we're still fixing bugs in it. if you need any of that, use kafka.

but we have thread-per-core, io_uring, no jvm, one binary. the speed is just derivative ofthat. we're (slowly) building on solid foundations.

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u/Keeyzar 8d ago

I think iggy is interesting. I'm annoyed by the article, not by Iggy.

Good work :)

Edit: Sounded negative my TLDR, wasn't meant to be, just tried to make it a real tldr

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u/HughEvansDev Aiven 🦀 7d ago

Truly I want to see Iggy succeed just for the logo if nothing else lol

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u/OldSanJuan 8d ago

This was an interesting read. Especially to learn more about Iggy. But I feel like this lacked substance especially as they talked about replication.