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AutoMQ vs Other Streaming Platforms

Bruce edited this page May 1, 2024 · 5 revisions

🍵 AutoMQ vs Other Streaming Platforms

Feature AutoMQ Apache Kafka Confluent Apache Pulsar Redpanda Warpstream
Apache Kafka Compatibility[1] Native Kafka Native Kafka Native Kafka Non-Kafka Kafka Protocol Kafka Protocol
Source Code Availability Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
Stateless Broker Yes No No Yes No Yes
P99 Latency Single-digit
ms latency
> 400ms
Continuous Self-Balancing Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Scale in/out In seconds In hours/days In hours In hours
(scale-in);
In seconds
(scale-out)
In hours/In seconds (Enterprise Only) In seconds
Spot Instance Support Yes No No No No Yes
Partition Reassignment In seconds In hours/days In hours In seconds In hours/In seconds (Enterprise Only) In seconds
Component Broker Broker
Zookeeper
(Non-KRaft)
Broker
Zookeeper
Bookkeeper
Proxy(Optional)
Broker Agent
MetadataServer
Durability Guaranteed by S3/EBS[2] Guaranteed by ISR Guaranteed by Bookkeeper Guaranteed by Raft Guaranteed by S3
Inter-AZ Networking Fees No Yes No

[1] Apache Kafka Compatibility's definition is coming from this blog.

[2] EBS Durability: On Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud, Regional EBS replicas span multiple AZs. On AWS, ensure durability by double writing to EBS and S3 Express One Zone in different AZs.