The release of Kafka 0.9, its commercial counterpart Confluent Platform 2.0, and new distro component MapR Streams, bring prominence and maturity to streaming data processing in the Hadoop ecosystem.

Confluent Inc. today announced new features in its cloud service that make it easier for users of its Apache Kafka-based streaming engine to store data in the Apache Iceberg table format. The new ...

When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application.

Business intelligence platform provider Arcadia Data Inc. is bidding to democratize real-time streaming analytics with a new visual analytics tool for the Apache Kafka publish-subscribe messaging ...

Apache Kafka is a strong choice to handle real-time data streaming as it ingests, persists and presents streams of data for consumption and use by individuals for analytics. Basically, Kafka operates ...

Kafka 3.9 ends ZooKeeper usage and introduces KRaft quorums for easier management. Tiered storage is now considered production ready.

At the Kafka Summit, Confluent unveils enhanced functionalities aimed at streamlining AI and stream processing workflows.

NYSE's deployment of Redpanda's data streaming platform achieved 4-5x performance gains over Java-based Kafka, exposing critical limitations that affect enterprise AI scaling and real-time ...

With Streaming Spotlight, existing customers can integrate Kafka monitoring metrics into the Pepperdata dashboard, adding detailed visibility into Kafka cluster metrics, broker health, topics and ...