sarama
Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. [Moved to: https://github.com/IBM/sarama] (by Shopify)
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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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
sarama
Posts with mentions or reviews of sarama.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
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Ingesting Data into OpenSearch using Apache Kafka and Go
Note: Since there are multiple Go clients for Kafka (including Sarama), please make sure to consult their client documentation to confirm whether they support IAM authentication.
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book about golang and kafka
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
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Klient - a native, statically-compiled, command line client for Kafka
I've used mainly sarama wrapped with a bit of bespoke helper libraries. Never really looked into others, just grabbed one that was actively maintained and went for it.
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Golang bad design reference
Well, as someone who reviews a lot of code, I don't like seeing 100s of little files when a handful of logically grouped files would do. For example, this popular go project: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama is currently 256 small .go files, largely following a one class/file rule.
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Concurrency in Go is hard
The first example is something we ran into while working on a project. Up until recently, the sarama library (Go library for Apache Kafka) contained the following piece of code (at sarama/version.go):
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AWS MSK with go sarama
Im using the go sarama library to connect to the cluster, using this basic example.
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Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
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.
- Sarama - Go library for Apache Kafka.
- Understanding Kafka with Factorio
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Is segmentio/kafka-go production ready ?
There are a few factors that are stopping me from using kafka-go over Shopify's sarama.
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.
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Ingesting Data into OpenSearch using Apache Kafka and Go
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.
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book about golang and kafka
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
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New Winner of Kafka Consumers: Scala to Go Journey
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
- Which Kafka client library should I use?
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Use CDK to deploy a complete solution with Kafka, App Runner, EKS and DynamoDB
The MSK producer and consumer app use the franz-go library (it also supports MSK IAM authentication).
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Getting started with MSK Serverless and AWS Lambda using Go
How to use the franz-go Go Kafka client to connect to MSK Serverless using IAM authentication.
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Show HN: A native macOS client for Apache Kafka
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
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Oracle DB support in Benthos
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
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Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
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.
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Which library/project do you wish was ported to golang?
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 sarama and franz-go you can also consider the following projects:
Confluent Kafka Golang Client - Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client
kafka-go - Kafka library in Go
rust-rdkafka - A fully asynchronous, futures-based Kafka client library for Rust based on librdkafka
librdkafka - The Apache Kafka C/C++ library
sarama - Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka.
gorush - A push notification server written in Go (Golang).
go-ora - Pure go oracle client
Mercure - 🪽 An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications
gopush-cluster - Golang push server cluster
todo-api-microservice-example - Go microservice tutorial project using Domain Driven Design and Onion Architecture!
sarama vs Confluent Kafka Golang Client
franz-go vs kafka-go
sarama vs kafka-go
franz-go vs rust-rdkafka
sarama vs librdkafka
franz-go vs sarama
sarama vs gorush
franz-go vs go-ora
sarama vs Mercure
franz-go vs Confluent Kafka Golang Client
sarama vs gopush-cluster
franz-go vs todo-api-microservice-example