kafka-redpanda

Compare Benchmark Kafka and Redpanda

Testing Kafka performance compare dengan Redpanda:

➜  kafka-redpanda git:(main) go run main.go run-consumer -p kafka
Produce 1000000 records in 2.905461s
Consume 1000000 records in 587.410708ms
➜  kafka-redpanda git:(main) go run main.go run-consumer -p panda
Produce 1000000 records in 1.2659305s
Consume 1000000 records in 519.069625ms

Masing-masing running di docker dengan 1 broker.

Summary:

• Advantage Kafka
• High throughput
• Low latency
• Resistance to node/machine failure within a cluster
• Data persist on disk
• Scalability
• Distributed

Disadvantages of Kafka

• Only listen specific topic defined
• Require Zookeeper

Advantage of Redpanda

• Implement all Kafka API
• Single binary to deploy
• Any library built for Kafka are inter-operable for Redpanda
• Up to 6x faster Kafka transactions

For references: https://redpanda.com/platform/