Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka 2022 Benchmark
Executive Summary
Organizations often make comparisons between Apache Pulsar and Apache Kafka based on features, capabilities, size of the community, and a number of other metrics of varying importance. This report focuses purely on comparing the technical performance based on benchmark tests.
The last widely published Pulsar versus Kafka benchmark was performed in 2020, and a lot has happened since then. In 2021, Pulsar ranked as a Top 5 Apache Software Foundation project and surpassed Apache Kafka in monthly active contributors. Pulsar also averaged more monthly active contributors than Kafka for most of the past 18 months.
These contributions led to major performance improvements for Pulsar. To measure the impact of the improvements, the engineering team at StreamNative, led by Matteo Merli, Apache Pulsar PMC Chairperson, and StreamNative CTO, performed a benchmark study using the Linux Foundation Open Messaging benchmark.
Download the Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka 2022 Benchmark for a side-by-side comparison of Pulsar and Kafka performance, including tests on throughput, latency, and more.
Download the Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka 2022 Benchmark for a side-by-side comparison of Pulsar and Kafka performance, including tests on throughput, latency, and more.
Matteo is the CTO at StreamNative, where he brings rich experience in distributed pub-sub messaging platforms. Matteo was one of the co-creators of Apache Pulsar during his time at Yahoo!. Matteo and Sijie worked to create a global, distributed messaging system for Yahoo!, which would later become Apache Pulsar. Matteo then co-founded Streamlio with Guo, and later served as the Senior Principal Software Engineer at Splunk post-acquisition. Matteo is the PMC Chair of Apache Pulsar, where he helps to guide the community and ensure the success of the Pulsar project. He is also a PMC member for Apache BookKeeper.
Penghui Li is a PMC member of Apache Pulsar and a tech lead in Zhaopin.com, where he serves as the leading promoter to adopt Pulsar. His career has always involved messaging service from the messaging system, through the microservice, and into the current world with Pulsar.
StreamNative is a global team of knowledgeable experts in Apache Pulsar, Apache BookKeeper, and messaging and streaming.
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