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Apache Pulsar joins Kafka in Splunk Data Stream Processor

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 27, 2020

“While Kafka certainly has the edge over Pulsar in terms of market presence and user traction, proponents argue that Pulsar’s decoupled architecture provides it with performance advantages over Kafka, while it also boasts solid message queuing and multi-tenancy functionality,” said Matt Aslett, Research Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Like Kafka, Pulsar has also been expanding at a rapid pace beyond simple messaging.”

Web Webster

Web Webster

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