librdkafka is a C library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol, providing Producer, Consumer and Admin clients. It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 1 million msgs/second for the producer and 3 million msgs/second for the consumer. librdkafka is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. KAFKA is a registered trademark of The Apache Software Foundation and has been licensed for use by librdkafka. librdkafka has no affiliation with and is not endorsed by The Apache Software Foundation. SASL (GSSAPI/Kerberos/SSPI, PLAIN, SCRAM, OAUTHBEARER) support. Guaranteed API stability for C & C++ APIs (ABI safety guaranteed for C). Runs on Linux, MacOS X, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, and more. Commercial support is available from Confluent Inc.

Features

  • Full exactly-once-semantics (EOS) support
  • High-level producer, including Idempotent and transactional producers
  • High-level balanced KafkaConsumer (requires broker >= 0.9)
  • Simple (legacy) consumer
  • Admin client
  • Compression, snappy, gzip, lz4, zstd

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Data Formats, Libraries

License

BSD License

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

C

Related Categories

C Data Formats Software, C Libraries

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2021-10-22
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