User Reviews of Apache Kafka & IBM Event Streams

Updated March 2024

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Apache Kafka review

Amit Laddha
Amit Laddha
Vice President (Information and Product Management) at Tradebulls Securities (P) Limited
With valuable features like clustering and sharding, the product also offers good...
If you are using the latest version of Apache Kafka in which the use of Zookeeper is not required, then it uses the KRaft protocol, which is built into Kafka broker. Since the use of Zookeeper is no longer required, I think the setup phase of dissolution is better than its previous versions. I rate the initial setup of the product somewhere...
IBM Event Streams review

Thabiso Mofokeng
Thabiso Mofokeng
IBM MQ Specialist / Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Easy to use, stable, has a good interface, and the security is good
I don't know if it's because of experience, but for me, it was easy to install. It's just a matter of having an RPM, then click next, next, and next again. The difficult part comes in when you have to configure the security. That is the most difficult part, but it's not that difficult. It takes less than two hours to install. Two hours max,...

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