Apache Kafka Stability

AT
Group Manager at a media company with 201-500 employees

I would rate the stability of Apache Kafka a six out of ten due to the polling period and high data volumes; there is a catch-up problem. If there is a five-minute downtime, it can have a cascading effect. 

When it comes to data availability, that is, how available the data is on the messaging queue, I would rate it a little less due to the coding mechanism and data getting stuck when the data volumes are high.  From the data availability perspective, I would rate it between six to seven. The major reason for this is the ransomware data that comes in day in and day out. If the resources are not allocated correctly to the Kafka messaging queue, sometimes it gets stuck. And once it is stuck, it can have a steady effect on catching up to the real-time data. Only because of this issue, I rate it between six to seven. 

However, from an overall data security perspective and ensuring that the data is consistent across the system, I would rate it around nine. If your PubSub model is written correctly, you can be assured that the data will not be lost. It will either be in the messaging queues or your landing tables or staging tables, but it will not be lost, at least if you have written it correctly.

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Amit Laddha - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President (Information and Product Management) at Tradebulls Securities (P) Limited

It is a pretty stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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AbhishekGupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Leader at Walmart

Apache Kafka is stable.

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Harsha Ravnikar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at Sysmex America, Inc.

The stability is good as long as you have a short retention period.

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Reza Sadeghi - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Team Lead at asa com

Kafka is stable.

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Jhon Rico - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at BVC

The stability may improve if the configuration and management aspects become less challenging.

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Pratul Shukla - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have not experienced any issues with the stability of the solution. We had some issues with Grid Gain and Kafka Connect, but we believe it was more of an issue on Grid Gain's side since they informed us of a bug. Our result has been that we have not encountered many issues on the Kafka side.

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MB
Architect at Agence Française de Développement

It is a stable solution.

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Nor EL MALKI - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Leyton & Associés, SAS

Apache Kafka is stable. We have not had any issues.

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SP
CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

It is absolutely stable.

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Bharath-Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at Tekgeminus

I rate Apache Kafka an eight out of ten for stability.

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GT
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a stable solution. Once completed, it is a very stable solution.

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Mukulit Bhati - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at InsightGeeks Solutions Pvt.

The solution is stable, and the most fantastic thing about it is its throughput. For example, I have tried MQs, which also have Apache Kafka Streams. So the throughput of Apache Kafka Stream is impeccable and impressive.

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Stuart-Cook - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Founder at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

It seemed pretty stable and didn't have any issues at all.

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Rémy NOLLET - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Exchange Architect MQSeries at Decathlon International

The stability is good; the solution operates on our clusters without a big impact.

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Silvio Lucas Pereira Filho - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Tech Lead at RecargaPay

Apache Kafka is a stable solution.

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Joaquin Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO - Founder / Principal Data Scientist / Principal AI Architect at Kanayma LLC

The stability of this solution depends on whether it is properly configured. Having said that, Kafka is incredibly complex to configure, set up, administer, and maintain.

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TD
Head of Technology - Money Movement Platform at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The stability of Apache Kafka is very good.

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AV
Technical Director at Metrofibre Networx

It is a stable solution. We never faced any issues. I rate it a ten out of ten.

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RG
Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It seems to be quite stable.

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it_user590451 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We haven’t faced any issues so far. Some of the clusters churn millions of records per seconds with ease.

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Felipe Lopes - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at Alice

The stability of the solution is good.

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NK
Director at Tibco

The solution is stable.

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JA
Technical Lead at Interface Fintech Ltd

I think it's very stable. I would rate the stability as a four or five out of five. 

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SK
Barista Brewing Espresso at Linkedln

The stability is good. 

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Salvatore Campana - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Founder at XAUTOMATA TECHNOLOGY GmbH

The stability is very nice. We currently manage 50 million events daily.

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ME
CTO at Estrada & Consultores

The stability is excellent. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

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DZ
Enterprise Architect at Smals vzw

The solution is stable if you have set it up correctly.

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Ravi Kuppusamy - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and Founder at BAssure Solutions

Apache Kafka is stable.

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KS
Solution Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Apache Kafka is stable.

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Moussa Chikhi - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecte Technique Senior at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Kafka works very well.

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Paul Adams - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is highly resilient.

I rate the stability of Apache Kafka a nine out of ten.

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ShoaibKhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at APIZone

There are issues with stability. It's not 100% stable like ActiveMQ, but it's maybe 98% stable.

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DP
Sr Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is stable.

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LP
Owner at Binarylogicworks.com.au

Resilience-wise, Kafka is very good.

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TM
Building Event-centric Data processing Architectures at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For what it does, the tool is very stable. It is a message broker. It receives the messages and holds them for producers and consumers. It's usually everything around Kafka that has stability problems because Kafka does exactly what it's supposed to do.

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TM
Assistant Student at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is pretty stable compared to Rabbit or other brokers. 

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it_user653562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have any issues with stability.

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Abdul-Samad - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I rate Apache Kafka seven out of 10 for stability. 

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Guirino Ciliberti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Governance & Lineage Product Manager at Primeur

The solution is stable. However, it's not possible to substitute IBM MQ with Apache Kafka because the JMS part is not very stable. It is inadequate and doesn't have the support of the MQI interface of IBM MQ.

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DS
Principal Technology Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Kafka is stable. It's a great product. 

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MN
Project Engineer at Wipro Limited

The solution is a bit slow in comparison to RabbitMQ. It's supposed to be a very fast solution, and it has okay performance, but speed-wise, it's quite slow.

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it_user660591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have had no issues with stability.

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it_user578787 - PeerSpot reviewer
Java Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

So far, we have not encountered any stability issues.

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KQ
Senior Technical Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The only stability issues we had were mostly a result of the evolving APIs and existing bugs.

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YL
Vice President at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

It's stable. However, the Windows Service is not very stable because it is a wrapper.

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RABBAHMahmoud - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Architect at RABBAH SOFT

The stability is good. We've never had any issues. 

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it_user642168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Lead at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

We used to have problems in Kafka every three weeks and our dev ops team fixed a few issues. For the last six months, there have been no production problems, but during the time Kafka was not stable, it was not easy to understand what was wrong and how to fix it.

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it_user660627 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineering Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Generally, there were no stability issues. However, there was one scare in production when a consumer rebalance took 30 minutes and messages were not being processed during that time.

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it_user650223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Software Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have not encountered any stability issues.

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Sreekar Nethagani - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Attaika

The solution is stable. 

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NC
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is stable. 

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JJ
Technology Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I cannot judge stability without having better control over the message queue, although I feel that it is not 100% stable. 

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it_user650004 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sometimes we have stability issues, but not often.

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it_user647457 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

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it_user644286 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager, DevOps Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I found it very stable.

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AM
IBMi/MIMIX Administrator at Arab Bank

We have not experienced any bugs or glitches.

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Mukulit Bhati - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at InsightGeeks Solutions Pvt.

It is really stable. The stability is really good. I just installed it on my local machine. 

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it_user592356 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead/Project Manager(Consulting Apple Inc) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you are using the same group ID for multiple topics, it may shut down the application. We have faced this issue before.

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it_user592338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not encountered any stability issues.

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OT
Senior Big Data Developer | Cloudera at Dilisim

The solution can be quite stable. We haven't encountered any issues on the Kafka side. However, Creating custom stabilizations would be good for dealing with stabilizing issues.

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DR
Founder, CEO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

No issues here with stability.

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MS
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The stability of the solution is very good, even for large enterprise-level organizations. It's quite reliable. There aren't bugs or glitches that affect it. The solution doesn't crash.

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RH
freelance at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a stable solution.

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it_user998961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprice Architect

This is a stable solution and we haven't had any complexities.

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it_user660630 - PeerSpot reviewer
SDET II at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There were no stability issues.

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WG
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Kafka is a stable product.

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Buyer's Guide
Apache Kafka
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Apache Kafka. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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