Benthos VS franz-go

Compare Benthos vs franz-go and see what are their differences.

franz-go

franz-go contains a feature complete, pure Go library for interacting with Kafka from 0.8.0 through 3.6+. Producing, consuming, transacting, administrating, etc. (by twmb)
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Benthos franz-go
76 16
7,367 1,445
3.7% -
9.6 9.1
5 days ago about 18 hours ago
Go Go
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Benthos

Posts with mentions or reviews of Benthos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-01.

franz-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of franz-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
  • Ingesting Data into OpenSearch using Apache Kafka and Go
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2023
    Thankfully, Kafka and OpenSearch provide client libraries for a variety of programming languages which make it possible to write your own integration layer. This is exactly what's covered in this blog! We will make use of a custom Go application to ingest data using Go clients for Kafka and OpenSearch.
  • book about golang and kafka
    6 projects | /r/golang | 4 Jun 2023
    You might want to gradually replace that one with https://github.com/twmb/franz-go because Shopify is looking to find a new owner for Sarama and, until or if they do, it seems to be falling behind with maintenance: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2461 For example, they still haven’t addressed this breaking change https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2358. franz-go has worked well so far in Benthos https://github.com/benthosdev/benthos/tree/main/internal/impl/kafka and it will likely end up as the only implementation once the Sarama-based one will be deprecated
  • New Winner of Kafka Consumers: Scala to Go Journey
    2 projects | /r/golang | 18 Apr 2023
    Can you post the code for that? Franz-go itself publishes benchmark samples for all clients here, so easy to run on your own machine and also review/adapt settings as needed: https://github.com/twmb/franz-go/tree/master/examples/bench
    2 projects | /r/golang | 18 Apr 2023
  • Use CDK to deploy a complete solution with Kafka, App Runner, EKS and DynamoDB
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Jan 2023
    The MSK producer and consumer app use the franz-go library (it also supports MSK IAM authentication).
  • Getting started with MSK Serverless and AWS Lambda using Go
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2023
    How to use the franz-go Go Kafka client to connect to MSK Serverless using IAM authentication.
  • Show HN: A native macOS client for Apache Kafka
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2022
    Franz is a fairly obvious name for a Kafka related tool/library so hopefully it won't get confused with https://github.com/twmb/franz-go
  • Oracle DB support in Benthos
    8 projects | /r/golang | 7 Oct 2022
    github.com/twmb/franz-go -> also early days but this is looking like a fantastic option for a kafka client library if you fancy being an early adopter. I've done the rounds on many kafka client libraries and they always seem to be a harsh compromise in some form or another, but I feel good about this one
  • Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
    4 projects | /r/dataengineering | 8 Jun 2022
    If you find the kafka input slow, try kafka_franz. It might be a bit faster, since it’s based on https://github.com/twmb/franz-go. The kafka one is based on https://github.com/Shopify/sarama. You can also write a custom input based on https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, but this library relies on CGo, which can be annoying.
  • Which library/project do you wish was ported to golang?
    29 projects | /r/golang | 9 Jan 2022
    Redpanda isn’t implemented in Go, but I second its use over the Apache server. Plenty of clients out there in pure go. https://github.com/twmb/franz-go is a personal favorite

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Benthos and franz-go you can also consider the following projects:

kafka-go - Kafka library in Go

sarama - Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. [Moved to: https://github.com/IBM/sarama]

Confluent Kafka Golang Client - Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client

appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

watermill - Building event-driven applications the easy way in Go.

grpcui - An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman

grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

salsa - A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation. Inspired by adapton, glimmer, and rustc's query system.

script-server - Web UI for your scripts with execution management

azure-event-hubs-go - Golang client library for Azure Event Hubs https://azure.microsoft.com/services/event-hubs

go-jsonnet