Apache Kafka VS Apache Spark

Compare Apache Kafka vs Apache Spark and see what are their differences.

Apache Kafka

Mirror of Apache Kafka (by apache)

Apache Spark

Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing (by apache)
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Apache Kafka Apache Spark
25 101
27,066 38,104
1.4% 1.1%
9.9 10.0
7 days ago 5 days ago
Java Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Apache Kafka

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Kafka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-15.

Apache Spark

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Spark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Apache Kafka and Apache Spark you can also consider the following projects:

Trino - Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

redpanda - Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

jetstream - JetStream Utilities

Aeron - Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

NATS - High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

Apache Qpid - Mirror of Apache Qpid

Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

Hermes - Fast and reliable message broker built on top of Kafka.

JBoss HornetQ - HornetQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.

Chronicle Queue - Micro second messaging that stores everything to disk