The Kafka Ecosystem - Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Kafka REST Proxy, and the Schema Registry
The Kafka Ecosystem - Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Kafka REST Proxy, and the Schema Registry The core of Kafka is the brokers, topics, logs, partitions, and cluster. The core also consists of related tools like MirrorMaker. The aforementioned is Kafka as it exists in Apache. The Kafka ecosystem consists of Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Kafka REST Proxy, and the Schema Registry. Most of the additional pieces of the Kafka ecosystem comes from Confluent and is not part of Apache.