Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka: A More Accurate Perspective on Pulsar's Performance
Executive Summary
Today, many companies are looking at real-time data streaming applications to develop new products and services. Organizations must first understand the advantages and differentiators of the different event streaming systems before they can select the technology best-suited to meet their business needs.
Benchmarks are one method organizations use to compare and measure the performance of different technologies. In order for these benchmarks to be meaningful, they must be done correctly and provide accurate information. Unfortunately, it is all too easy for benchmarks to fail to provide accurate insights due to any number of issues.
Download and review our white paper for a more comprehensive performance report of Pulsar and Kafka. The section StreamNative Benchmark Results also gives detail of our test setup and additional commentary.
Sijie Guo is the co-founder and CEO of StreamNative, which provides a cloud-native event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar. Sijie has worked on messaging and streaming data technologies for more than a decade. Prior to StreamNative, Sijie cofounded Streamlio, a company focused on real-time solutions. At Twitter, Sijie was the tech lead for the messaging infrastructure group, where he co-created DistributedLog and Twitter EventBus. Prior to that, he worked on the push notification infrastructure at Yahoo!, where he was one of the original developers of BookKeeper and Pulsar. He is also the VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC member of Apache Pulsar.
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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