I am new to kafka and I am curious about the Confluent platform. It seems that there are not many user stories on the Confluent platform. What are the differences between the Confluent platform and Apache Kafka?
Confluent is so much more than Apache Kafka® Used by over 70% of the Fortune 500, Apache Kafka has become the foundational platform for data in motion, but self-supporting the open source project puts you in the business of managing low-level data infrastructure.
Confluent Control Center is a GUI-based system for managing and monitoring Apache Kafka. It allows you to easily manage Kafka Connect, to create, edit, and manage connections to other systems.
Confluent Schema RegistryAlthough Schema Registry is not a required service for Kafka Connect, it enables you to easily use Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema as common data formats for the Kafka records that connectors read from and write to.
"Which one is your favorite" is probably not a question appropriate to this forum since it is very subjective. I can, however, describe the differences.
Confluent Platform includes Apache Kafka, so you will get that in any case. It also includes few things that can make Apache Kafka easier to use:
Hope this helps you choose.
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