Kafka Tutorial for Beginners This Kafka tutorial from Intellipaat covers the introduction to Kafka, its definition, installation of Kafka, use cases, ecosystem, version updating, Application Programming Interface, configuration, operation, basic Kafka operations, datacenters, import configuration, Java version, hardware and operating system, monitoring, and conclusion. Read below to find out why Kafka has gained impetus in such a short span of time since its inception: Widely known for its speed, i.e., 2 million writes per second with zero downtime and zero loss Balances the load by storing more than one partition Able to gather logs from multiple sources and convert them in a standard format. Kafka vs Storm Despite both these technologies work together, their operations are slightly different in nature. Let’s compare Kafka and Storm: Apache Kafka Apache Storm distributed pub-sub real-time messaging system distributed real-time computation engine processes messages at scale processes unbounded streams of data Useful when processing and analyzing data in real-time Useful in transforming data in multiple stages Our Big Data Courses Duration and Fees Program Name Start Date Fees Big Data Hadoop Course in Bangalore Cohort starts on 11th Jan 2025 ₹22,743 Big Data Hadoop Training in Hyderabad Cohort starts on 18th Jan 2025 ₹22,743 Big Data Hadoop Training in Pune Cohort starts on 11th Jan 2025 ₹22,743