Kafka je ena od več sistemov za sporočanje/streaming — alternative vključujejo RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar in oblačne storitve (AWS SQS/SNS/Kinesis, Google Pub/Sub). Vsak ima svoje prednosti in kompromise; njihovo razumevanje pomaga pri izbiri pravega orodja.
Kafka vs RabbitMQ
KAFKA → distributed event LOG; high throughput; retention/replay; streaming; many consumers
of the same data; partition-based → for event streaming, pipelines, high volume
RABBITMQ → traditional message BROKER (queues); rich ROUTING; per-message handling;
request/reply; lower-latency for individual messages → for task queues, complex routing,
RPC-style messaging
→ Kafka for streaming/high-volume/retention; RabbitMQ for flexible routing/task queues
