It's a kafka clone. Kafka is a durable queue, mostly.

sureglymop · 2024-11-12T18:40:23 1731436823

What is a durable queue and why is it needed (instead of a traditional relational db)?

toast0 · 2024-11-13T02:42:23 1731465743

Traditional relational dbs can be good at durability (if properly configured), but it a queue might be designed differently than a table.

You might want to be more specific about how messages are assigned to clients than what would be convenient in a relational database.

cyberax · 2024-11-12T23:00:31 1731452431

RDBs suck for many-to-many high-availability messaging.

rad_gruchalski · 2024-11-13T17:07:57 1731517677

Kafka is an append-only log, not a queue.

zbentley · 2024-11-15T02:00:15 1731636015

Assuming successful implementation of KIP-932, it will soon be a queue as well.