Should I use Kafka or SQS?

Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design. Batches cost the same amount as single messages, meaning SQS can be even more cost effective for customers that use batching.

Is Amazon SQS similar to Kafka?

Apache Kafka and Amazon SQS both are using for message streaming but are not same. Apache Kafka follows publish subscriber model, where producer send event/message to topic and one or more consumers are subscribed to that topic to get the event/message.

Why do we use SQS?

SQS is a message queue service used by distributed applications to exchange messages through a polling model, and can be used to decouple sending and receiving components.

What are the benefits of SQS over an in house developed messaging queue?

It has a benefit of supporting an ample amount of transactions per second per API action. As the message is delivered on at a time but at the same time, it delivers more than one copy of a message. It may happen that the message delivered is in the different order from the source in which they were sent.

Is Amazon SNS like Kafka?

The use-cases for Kafka and Amazon SQS/Amazon SNS are quite different. Kafka, as you wrote, is a distributed publish-subscribe system. It is designed for very high throughput, processing thousands of messages per second. Of course you need to setup and cluster it for yourself.

What do you use Kafka for?

Kafka is primarily used to build real-time streaming data pipelines and applications that adapt to the data streams. It combines messaging, storage, and stream processing to allow storage and analysis of both historical and real-time data.

Is Amazon SNS Kafka?

Which of the following is the feature of Amazon SQS?

Queue sharing: Securely share Amazon SQS queues anonymously or with specific AWS accounts. Queue sharing can also be restricted by IP address and time-of-day. Server-side encryption (SSE): Protect the contents of messages in Amazon SQS queues using keys managed in the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

What is the Kafka SQS problem?

But the problem is, similar to how Amazon SQS is designed, in Kafka, if there are multiple consumers for the same topic, the messages are distributed among the consumers, instead of each one of them getting a copy of the same message.

What is the difference between Amazon SQS and Apache Kafka?

Amazon SQS is ranked 6th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 1 review while Apache Kafka is ranked 2nd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 18 reviews. Amazon SQS is rated 8.0, while Apache Kafka is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon SQS writes “An affordable, easy-to-scale solution that is simple to deploy and maintain”.

How to emulate Kafka’s consumer groups with Amazon SNS?

When you have multiple consumers for the same queue in an SQS setup, the messages will be distributed among all the consumers. So to emulate Kafka’s consumer groups, we need to introduce Amazon SNS into the setup. Let’s see why that is.

What is Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work.