Comment by gilbetron
5 years ago
What velocity have you achieved with postgres, in terms of # messages/sec where messages could range between 1KB-100KB in size?
5 years ago
What velocity have you achieved with postgres, in terms of # messages/sec where messages could range between 1KB-100KB in size?
Yup. That's what Kafka excels at and where it scales to throughput way beyond Postgres.
But there are many many projects where Kafka is used for low value event sourcing stuff where a SQL DB could be easier.