Kafka Manager vs XMPP: What are the differences?

What is Kafka Manager? A tool for managing Apache Kafka, developed by Yahoo. 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.

What is XMPP? An open XML technology for real-time communication. It is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.

Kafka Manager and XMPP are primarily classified as "Message Queue" and "Container" tools respectively.

Kafka Manager is an open source tool with 7.72K GitHub stars and 1.88K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kafka Manager's open source repository on GitHub.

Yahoo!, IgnitionOne, and Ocado Technology are some of the popular companies that use Kafka Manager, whereas XMPP is used by Mendix, Vidyo.io, and Relayo. Kafka Manager has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 27 developers stacks; compared to XMPP, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.