Confluent Kafka Golang Client VS NATS

Compare Confluent Kafka Golang Client vs NATS and see what are their differences.

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Confluent Kafka Golang Client NATS
12 11
4,381 5,074
1.6% 1.8%
8.1 9.1
about 17 hours ago 7 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Confluent Kafka Golang Client

Posts with mentions or reviews of Confluent Kafka Golang Client. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
  • book about golang and kafka
    6 projects | /r/golang | 4 Jun 2023
    There are two main libraries that people use to write clients Confluent Kafka and segment io kafka
  • Getting sum type values from a map
    2 projects | /r/vlang | 14 Nov 2022
    As my first "real world" (ish) project in Vlang, I'm trying to copy https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, which is a Go wrapper for Kafka C client library, https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
  • Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2022
    You are right, but in practice that's not what happens. Companies do not rely on open source libraries, the developers working for such companies do.

    I can give you a realistic example. If you want to use Kafka and Go, your probably only option is to use https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go. Its LICENSE explicitly says "no warranty". Now, what if I find a bug in the library? Only two realistic solutions from my side:

    1. I submit the issue and hope for the maintainers to fix it

    2. I dig deeper and try to fix the issue. I submit the PR

    None of the above scenarios are guaranteed to have a happy ending. The issue could be ignored, or piled up among thousand of other (maybe higher prio) issues. My solution may not be optimal and could be rejected (or if it's optimal, nobody is taking a look at it, and it could remain open for weeks/months).

    > If that is a problem for you, negotiate a different contract up front - with the maintainer or someone else willing to do the work. That probably means paying them.

    In the real world that would mean that I go to my manager and asks them to pay money to the maintainers of confluent-kafka-go to fix the issue I found. I don't think my manager would approve that, but let's imagine he does. The guys at confluent-kafka-go may not want money to fix the issue. These guys have probably already jobs that pay them well, and they work on the library at will.

    Note: I'm talking about confluent-kafka-go, which I know is behind the Confluent software company. But I could as well be talking about libraries maintained by individuals like https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka

  • What are Golang competitors in 2022 when it comes to one-file binary deployment?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 11 Jul 2022
    it can be completely statically linked binaries. example: https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/blob/db57ef6235/kafka/librdkafka_vendor/README.md
  • 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.
  • Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2021
    So, in the interests of full transparency - we at Zendesk are actually running a fork of confluent-kafka-go, which I forked to add, amongst other things, context support: https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/pull/626

    This bug actually happened because I mis-merged upstream into our fork and missed an important call to rd_kafka_poll_set_consumer: https://github.com/zendesk/confluent-kafka-go/commit/6e2d889...

  • Create page view analytics system using Kafka, Go, Postgres & GraphQL in 5 steps
    4 projects | dev.to | 11 Aug 2021
    Setup Kafka Producer using confluent-kakfka-go
  • Is segmentio/kafka-go production ready ?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 1 Jun 2021
    I'd suggest https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go we switched from sarama-cluster with minimal work and it works fine. And we process approx 1.2M messages per hour.
    3 projects | /r/golang | 1 Jun 2021
    You should give confluent-kafka-go a try. It has a sync producer and is super fast. Have been using from quite a few years now.
  • Go and Kafka
    2 projects | /r/golang | 26 Apr 2021
    In my company we use this https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go,

NATS

Posts with mentions or reviews of NATS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Confluent Kafka Golang Client and NATS you can also consider the following projects:

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

kafka-go - Kafka library in Go

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

Centrifugo - Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.

EventBus - [Go] Lightweight eventbus with async compatibility for Go

goka - Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go.

Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

go-nsq - The official Go package for NSQ

dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus

emitter - Emits events in Go way, with wildcard, predicates, cancellation possibilities and many other good wins

confluent-kafka-python - Confluent's Kafka Python Client