What is Kafka Manager?
This interface makes it easier to identify topics which are unevenly distributed across the cluster or have partition leaders unevenly distributed across the cluster. It supports management of multiple clusters, preferred replica election, replica re-assignment, and topic creation. It is also great for getting a quick bird’s eye view of the cluster.
Kafka Manager is a tool in the Kafka Tools category of a tech stack.
Kafka Manager is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kafka Manager's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kafka Manager?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Kafka Manager in their tech stacks, including Yahoo!, XYZ Technology, and Kaidee.
Developers
58 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kafka Manager.
Kafka Manager Integrations
Pros of Kafka Manager
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Kafka Manager's Features
- Manage multiple clusters
- Easy inspection of cluster state (topics, brokers, replica distribution, partition distribution)
- Run preferred replica election
- Generate partition assignments (based on current state of cluster)
- Run reassignment of partition (based on generated assignments)
Kafka Manager Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kafka Manager?
Zookeeper
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
