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Confluent Launches Cloud-Native Kora: An Alternative to Kafka

Publisher IDC
Published Jun 30, 2023
Length 5 Pages
SKU # IDC18029767

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Confluent Launches Cloud-Native Kora: An Alternative to Kafka


This IDC Market Note analyzes news from Confluent, the commercial company spun out of LinkedIn that shepherds the open-source, real-time data streaming platform, Kafka. It built a new engine from the ground up for cloud, while maintaining Kafka compatibility. Moreover, it added new Data Quality Rules, Connectors, Stream Sharing, and a managed Flink service after its acquisition of Immerok. "Kafka is one of the most popular event stream processing engines," said Jason Stamper, research manager, IDC's Data Intelligence, Integration and Platforms. "This slew of announcements are a considerable step forward in what the commercial company behind Kafka — Confluent — has to offer customers over and above self-managed Kafka clusters."

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Table of Contents

5 Pages
Executive Snapshot
In This Market Note
IDC's Point of View
Background
Launch of a New Streaming Engine: Kora
Turning its Back on Kafka?
Other Significant Announcements
Data Quality Rules
Stream Sharing
Custom Connectors
Early Access for Managed Apache Flink
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