NATS vs Kafka: Part 1

In this episode, Jeremy and Jean-Noel compare NATS and Kafka from an architectural perspective, outlining the design differences between both technologies.

Chapters

• 02:35 Biggest Differences between NATS & Kafka
• 06:13 Technical details & tradeoffs around distributed logs vs NATS
• 12:06 Kafka topics vs NATS JetStream stream
• 15:55 Subject-based addressing in streams
• 17:35 NATS JetStream consumers vs Kafka consumer groups
• 22:28 Data storage
• 27:35 JetStream Data stores as Object store & KV store
• 28:18 CRUD and concurrency access control
• 32:30 JetStream Rollups
• 34:16 Throughput, batching, & latency, Oh my!

Resources

• To download a Total Cost of Ownership report on NATS and Kafka
• This video is a follow-up from our RethinkConn talk on Kafka and NATS