Apache Kafka Stability
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reviewer2075460
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.
View full review »It is a pretty stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Apache Kafka is stable.
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The stability is good as long as you have a short retention period.
View full review »Kafka is stable.
View full review »The stability may improve if the configuration and management aspects become less challenging.
View full review »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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Mohamed BENTAHAR
Architect at Agence Française de Développement
It is a stable solution.
View full review »Apache Kafka is stable. We have not had any issues.
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reviewer1142973
CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
It is absolutely stable.
View full review »I rate Apache Kafka an eight out of ten for stability.
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George Thomas
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »It seemed pretty stable and didn't have any issues at all.
View full review »The stability is good; the solution operates on our clusters without a big impact.
View full review »Apache Kafka is a stable solution.
View full review »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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reviewer1218324
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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Andre Visser
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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Reza Gholami
Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It seems to be quite stable.
View full review »We haven’t faced any issues so far. Some of the clusters churn millions of records per seconds with ease.
View full review »The stability of the solution is good.
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Nitin Kamble
Director at Tibco
The solution is stable.
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Jack Angoe
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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SunilKalva
Barista Brewing Espresso at Linkedln
The stability is good.
View full review »The stability is very nice. We currently manage 50 million events daily.
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Mario Estrada
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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Dimitrios Zigkos
Enterprise Architect at Smals vzw
The solution is stable if you have set it up correctly.
View full review »Apache Kafka is stable.
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reviewer1421481
Solution Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Apache Kafka is stable.
View full review »Kafka works very well.
View full review »The solution is highly resilient.
I rate the stability of Apache Kafka a nine out of ten.
View full review »There are issues with stability. It's not 100% stable like ActiveMQ, but it's maybe 98% stable.
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DustyPressley
Sr Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is stable.
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Lakshmanan Panneerselvam
Owner at Binarylogicworks.com.au
Resilience-wise, Kafka is very good.
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reviewer1398480
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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reviewer971988
Assistant Student at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is pretty stable compared to Rabbit or other brokers.
View full review »We did not have any issues with stability.
View full review »I rate Apache Kafka seven out of 10 for stability.
View full review »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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reviewer1052868
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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MoulaliNaguri
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.
View full review »We have had no issues with stability.
View full review »So far, we have not encountered any stability issues.
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Kevin Quon
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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reviewer1128858
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.
View full review »The stability is good. We've never had any issues.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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Narendra Chauhan
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1247268
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.
View full review »Sometimes we have stability issues, but not often.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »I found it very stable.
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AhmadMasamreh
IBMi/MIMIX Administrator at Arab Bank
We have not experienced any bugs or glitches.
View full review »It is really stable. The stability is really good. I just installed it on my local machine.
View full review »If you are using the same group ID for multiple topics, it may shut down the application. We have faced this issue before.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues.
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OnurTokat
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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FounderC32bc
Founder, CEO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
No issues here with stability.
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reviewer1304505
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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reviewer1289778
freelance at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's a stable solution.
View full review »This is a stable solution and we haven't had any complexities.
View full review »There were no stability issues.
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reviewer1388343
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Kafka is a stable product.
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