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Overview
Developed byLinkedIn
Maintained byApache Software Foundation
Founded2011
LicenseApache 2.0
Open source✓ Open Source
Primary languageJava
Use casedistributed event streaming for real-time data pipelines and integration
Technical
Protocols
TCP
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Apache PulsarRabbitMQ
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Apache Kafka

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Distributed event streaming platform used for real-time data pipelines

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programming language

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primary use case

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open source

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created by

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license type

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requires

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developed by

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maintained by

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pricing model

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founded year

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supports protocol

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competes with

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